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In one way it has craters. The other is it has dark spots.

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Both Ganymede and Earth's moon are composed mostly of rock and ice. They are both tidally locked to their parent planet, meaning the same side always faces their host body. However, Ganymede is larger than Earth's moon and has a thin atmosphere, unlike our moon.

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