Facts about Ganymede: the biggest moon:
Did you know which is the biggest of the solar system?
Moon of Jupiter Ganymede. Can you imagine how big is this?
You can understand with this fact that:
If Ganymede starts orbiting the sun then it would be a planet like earth.
( Here is a list of the 10 biggest moons)
How can a moon become a planet by just changing its orbit?
Of course, you are right but look here:
Ganymede is larger than both planet Mercury and Pluto (that we accepted as a planet)
And is 2/3 the size of Mars?
( you can know how many moons are there in our solar system)
And the second fact about it is that Highly cratered dark regions cover a large part of its surface
It is due to the heavy impact of asteroids or comets and dates back to around 4 billion years ago.
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