Artist’s Impression of a Sublimated Water Atmosphere on Ganymede
This image presents an artist’s impression infographic to highlight that astronomers have now used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first evidence for water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the result of the thermal escape of water vapour from the moon’s icy surface.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, J. daSilva
About the Image
Id: | heic2107e |
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Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | 26 July 2021, 17:00 |
Related releases: | heic2107 |
Size: | 5120 x 2880 px |
About the Object
Name: | Ganymede |
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Category: | Illustrations |