The production of Ganymede's magnetic fi
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Michael T. Bland; Adam P. Showman; Gabriel Tobie
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Article
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2008
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Elsevier Science
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English
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One of the great discoveries of NASA's Galileo mission was the presence of an intrinsically produced magnetic field at Ganymede. Generation of the relatively strong (750 nT) field likely requires dynamo action in Ganymede's metallic core, but how such a dynamo has been maintained into the present ep