File:Ganymede g1 true-edit1.jpg
Summary
True color image of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)" class="extiw" title="w:Ganymede (moon)">Ganymede</a>, obtained by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_spacecraft" class="extiw" title="w:Galileo spacecraft">Galileo spacecraft</a>, with enhanced contrast.
Here is the description from JPL's web entry for PIA00716:
Natural color view of Ganymede from the Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the satellite. North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from the right. The dark areas are the older, more heavily cratered regions and the light areas are younger, tectonically deformed regions. The brownish-gray color is due to mixtures of rocky materials and ice. Bright spots are geologically recent impact craters and their ejecta. The finest details that can be discerned in this picture are about 13.4 kilometers across. The images which combine for this color image were taken beginning at Universal Time 8:46:04 UT on June 26, 1996.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. This image and other images and data received from Galileo are posted on the World Wide Web, on the Galileo mission home page at URL <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov">http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov</a>. Background information and educational context for the images can be found at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo</a>.
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current | 15:26, 3 January 2017 | 790 × 790 (461 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | True color image of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)" class="extiw" title="w:Ganymede (moon)">Ganymede</a>, obtained by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_spacecraft" class="extiw" title="w:Galileo spacecraft"><i>Galileo</i> spacecraft</a>, with enhanced contrast. <p>Here is the description from JPL's web entry for PIA00716: </p> <p>Natural color view of Ganymede from the Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the satellite. North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from the right. The dark areas are the older, more heavily cratered regions and the light areas are younger, tectonically deformed regions. The brownish-gray color is due to mixtures of rocky materials and ice. Bright spots are geologically recent impact craters and their ejecta. The finest details that can be discerned in this picture are about 13.4 kilometers across. The images which combine for this color image were taken beginning at Universal Time 8:46:04 UT on June 26, 1996. </p> The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. This image and other images and data received from Galileo are posted on the World Wide Web, on the Galileo mission home page at URL <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov">http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov</a>. Background information and educational context for the images can be found at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo</a>. |
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- Achelous (crater)
- Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
- El (crater)
- Enki Catena
- Galileo Regio
- Ganymede (moon)
- Gula (crater)
- Jupiter's moons in fiction
- Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer
- Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter
- Khensu (crater)
- Kittu (crater)
- Laplace-P
- List of Solar System objects by size
- List of craters on Ganymede
- List of geological features on Ganymede
- List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
- List of natural satellites
- List of planet types
- List of quadrangles on Ganymede
- Moons of Jupiter
- Naming of moons
- Natural satellite
- Neith (crater)
- Nergal (crater)
- Pioneer 11
- Solar System
- Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons
- Uruk Sulcus
- Voyager program
- Template:SolarSummaryLarge