Ganymede (
Jupiter III) is the largest
moon of Jupiter and
in the Solar System, and the only
moon known to have a
magnetosphere. It is the seventh satellite outward from
Jupiter and third of the
Galilean moons, the first group of objects discovered orbiting another planet. Ganymede
orbits Jupiter in roughly seven days and is in a 1:2:4
orbital resonance with the moons
Europa and
Io, respectively. Ganymede has a diameter of , 8% larger than the planet
Mercury, but its mass is only 45% that of Mercury. Ganymede is 2% larger than Saturn's
Titan, the Solar System's second-largest moon. At 2.02 times the mass of the
Moon, it is the most massive planetary satellite. It is the ninth-largest object in the Solar System, and the largest without a substantial atmosphere.