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Ganymede has an ocean beneath miles of ice

Researchers had suspected a moon of Jupiter called Ganymede had an ocean. Now they’ve confirmed it.

Ganymede is bigger than our own moon, and even bigger than the smallest planet, Mercury. Ganymede has a magnetic field that creates northern and southern lights around its poles.

Scientists saw patterns of movement that showed the moon’s magnetic field is being influenced by a vast, salty ocean buried beneath miles of ice.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/12/392583244/moon-river-no-its-an-ocean-on-one-of-jupiters-moons