UNIVERSE LL W/SAPLINGPLUS MULTI SEMESTER
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If it is surprising to know that the magnetic field lines of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is twice as strong as the magnetic field lines of Mercury, as discovered by Galileo spacecraft which orbited Jupiter from the year 1995 to 2003.
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