A Flyby View of Ganymede
Explanation:
This is what it would look like to fly over
the surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. NASA's
robot spacecraft Galileo
recently approached only 6000 miles from this frozen ice-ball
of a moon. The
above
image
is a digital reconstruction from two images taken during this
flyby. The blue color of the sky is artificial. Deep furrows
cover
Ganymede's surface, and several
impact craters are also present. Galileo continues to orbit
Jupiter
and send back breathtaking photos of
Ganymede,
Io,
Europa,
Callisto, and, of course,
Jupiter
itself.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
