PIA01078: Callisto's Southern Hemisphere
 Target Name:  Callisto
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Galileo
 Spacecraft:  Galileo Orbiter
 Instrument:  Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer 
 Product Size:  900 x 850 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P49193 MRPS83847
 Addition Date:  1997-11-17
 Primary Data Set:  Galileo EDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01078.tif (807.7 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01078.jpg (96.79 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

These views of Callisto's southern hemisphere were taken by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer just after closest approach in orbit G8 on May 6, 1997. These false color images show surface compositional differences, red = more ice, blue = less ice.

The upper left view contains Buri, a crater with a diameter of about 60 km. In the infrared spectrum, Buri and the rays that extend from the crater have high abundance of water ice compared to the surrounding region. The center view, a large (200 km or 120 mile diameter) unnamed impact crater with a distinct ring or circle around it reveals a complex mix of ice and non-ice materials. This is possibly due to impact excavation of the ice-rich subsurface which suggests that the darker material is just a thin surface covering caused by impact debris or a lag deposit from which the ice has evaporated away. The infrared data shows spectral signatures for both sulfur and carbon as two potential materials which could play a part in the complicated make-up of Callisto's surface.

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Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1997-11-17