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PIA00081: Ganymede Mosaic
The hemisphere of Ganymede that faces away from the Sun displays a great variety of terrain in this mosaic from NASA's Voyager 2.
 Target Name:  Ganymede
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  2000 x 2000 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  260671  
 Addition Date:  1996-01-29 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00081.tif (9.883 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00081.jpg (445.4 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

The hemisphere of Ganymede that faces away from the Sun displays a great variety of terrain. In this Voyager 2 mosaic, photographed at a range of 300,000 kilometers, the ancient dark area of Regio Galileo lies at the upper left. Below it, the ray system is probably caused by water-ice, splashed out in a relatively recent impact.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-01-29