Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle depicts the young man aloft in literal amorous flight.

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

Io, unusually, is heated by solid flexing due to the tidal influence of Jupiter and Io's orbital resonance with neighboring large moons Europa and Ganymede, which keeps its orbit slightly eccentric.

A Chinese historian of astronomy, Xi Zezong, has claimed that a " small reddish star " observed near Jupiter in 362 BC by Chinese astronomer Gan De may have been Ganymede, predating Galileo's discovery by around two millennia.

The names that eventually prevailed were chosen by Simon Marius, who discovered the moons independently at the same time as Galileo: he named them at the suggestion of Johannes Kepler after lovers of the god Zeus ( the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ): Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, in his Mundus Jovialis, published in 1614.

* In " Heredity " ( 1941 ), a short story by Isaac Asimov, twin brothers who have been raised separately on Earth and Ganymede must work together to operate a Martian fungus farm.

Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed.

In Variable Star, a novel written by Spider Robinson based on an outline by Heinlein, the lead character is a farmer from Ganymede, where there is a Lermer City.

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Protrepticus ( Exhortation to the Greeks ) ( c. 190 ) IV-" Another new deity was added to the number with great religious pomp in Egypt, and was near being so in Greece by the king of the Romans, who deified Antinous 130CE, whom he loved as Zeus loved Ganymede, and whose beauty was of a very rare order: for lust is not easily restrained, destitute as it is of fear ; and men now observe the sacred nights of Antinous, the shameful character of which the lover who spent them with him knew well.

* Ganymede abducted by the Eagle ( 1531 – 32 )

According to legend the gay aura of the town arose when Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden arrived dressed as Dionysus and Ganymede, carried aloft on a gilded litter by a group of singing followers.

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Regardless of priority, the mythological names by which these satellites are known today ( Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto ) are those given them by Marius:

The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus, the Latinized form of Ganymede, the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to be his companion and cupbearer .< ref > Alastair J. L.

In northern Europe the artistic discourse on sodomy was turned against its proponents by artists such as Rembrandt, who in his Rape of Ganymede no longer depicted Ganymede as a willing youth, but as a squalling baby attacked by a rapacious bird of prey.

George decides to emigrate to the farming colony on Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons.

* Xibalba Sulcus, one of the geological features on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, is named after Xibalba.

Robert Heinlein's Science Fiction novel " Farmer in the Sky ", which depicts future colonists on Ganymede and takes up consciously many of the themes of the 19th century American frontier and homesteading, also includes a character who is known as " Johnny Appleseed " and like the historical one is involved in planting and spreading apple trees.

The term can also be used to describe the motion of a satellite across its parent planet, for instance one of the Galilean satellites ( Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto ) across Jupiter, as seen from Earth.

Io is in a 2: 1 mean-motion orbital resonance with Europa and a 4: 1 mean-motion orbital resonance with Ganymede, completing two orbits of Jupiter for every one orbit completed by Europa, and four orbits for every one completed by Ganymede.

The medical officer of an exploratory spaceship returning from Ganymede determines the crew has been infiltrated by at least one highly malicious shapeshifting alien.

A bronze hoop was one of the toys of the infant Dionysus, and hoop driving is an attribute of Ganymede, often depicted on Greek vase paintings from the fifth c. BCE.

Locales would again expand to other locations off Earth, including Mars, the moon, and Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter.

* 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.

* January 7 – Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io, but is unable to distinguish the latter two until the following day.

* January 11-Galileo Galilei observes Jupiter's four largest moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

The four Galileans are all over in diameter ; the largest Galilean, Ganymede, is the ninth largest object in the Solar System, after the Sun and seven of the planets ( Ganymede being larger than Mercury ).

By March 1610, he had sighted the four massive Galilean moons with his 30x magnification telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.

Apart from the Earth there are several worlds in World Wind: Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter ( with the four Galilean moons of Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto ) and SDSS ( imagery of stars and galactics ).

The historian Xi Zezong has claimed that this was a naked-eye observation of Ganymede in the summer of 365 BC, long before Galileo Galilei's celebrated discovery of the same in 1610 ( all four of the brightest moons are technically visible to the unaided eye, but in practice are normally hidden by the glare of Jupiter ).

Many 19th century history paintings of classical characters such as Hyacinth, Ganymede and Narcissus can also be interpreted as homoerotic ; the work of late 19th century artists ( such as Thomas Eakins, Eugène Jansson, Henry Scott Tuke, Aubrey Beardsley and Magnus Enckell ); through to the modern work of fine artists such as Paul Cadmus and Gilbert & George.

The numbers run from Jupiter outward, thus I, II, III and IV for Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto respectively.

The figure of Ganymede was employed in scurrilous sonnetry, but the subtext of criticism within the court was most often that the mignons were not drawn from the cream of noble families, as had been the court favourites of his late brother Francis II or their father Henry II, but from the secondary nobility, raised up to such a degree that the social fabric appeared to be unnaturally strained.

* Buddy Holly is Alive and Well On Ganymede

The streets of celestial objects such as Ganymede resemble any modern port city, while Mars is replete with shopping malls, theme parks, casinos and cities.

A similar mission is currently under discussion as the US component of a joint NASA / ESA program for the exploration of Europa and Ganymede.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede has a small magnetosphere, but it is situated entirely within the magnetosphere of Jupiter, leading to complex interactions.

The colony gradually recovers, and an expedition is organized to survey more of Ganymede.

In variant versions Ganymede is son of Laomedon son of Ilus son of Tros ; yet others call him son of Ilus, Erichthonius or Assaracus.

Aquila is also associated with the eagle who kidnapped Ganymede ( associated with Aquarius ) to serve as cup-bearer to the gods.

Meanwhile, a team of scientists on Ganymede ( formerly a moon of Jupiter that now orbits the star called " Lucifer ") is terraforming it for potential habitation.

It is revealed at the end of the episode that Earthforce claims that the base on Ganymede was destroyed by an " alien ship " ( the Whitestar ) which the EAS Agamemnon pursued all the way to Jupiter and then destroyed.