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PIA00080: Callisto Mosaic
Callisto was revealed by NASA's Voyager cameras to be a heavily cratered and hence geologically inactive world.
 Target Name:  Callisto
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  2000 x 2000 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  260450  
 Addition Date:  1996-08-12 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00080.tif (5.114 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00080.jpg (252.5 kB)  

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Callisto was revealed by the Voyager cameras to be a heavily cratered and hence geologically inactive world. This mosaic of Voyager 1 images, obtained on March 6 from a distance of about 400,000 kilometers, shows surface detail as small as 10 kilometers across. The prominent old impact feature Valhalla has a central bright spot about 600 kilometers across, probably representing the original impact basin. The concentric bright rings extend outward about 1500 kilometers from the impact center.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-08-12