This is an artist's conception of the magnetosphere of Ganymede.
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Magnetosphere of Ganymede
Did you know that some of the planets and moons can be magnetic? Earth is! The Galileo spacecraft found out that a moon of Jupiter, Ganymede, is magnetic too!
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