View of the region of Ganymede's Uruk Sulcus placed on a lower resolution Voyager view taken 17 years earlier. North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from almost overhead in the Galileo view. The finest details that can be discerned in the Galileo picture are about 80 meters across. The four boxes outlined in white show the extent of Galileo's initial look at this area.
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 http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov. Background information and educational context for the images can be found at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo .
Name | Value | Additional Values |
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Target | Ganymede | |
System | Jupiter | |
Target Type | Satellite | |
Mission | Galileo | Voyager |
Instrument Host | Galileo Orbiter | |
Host Type | Orbiter | Flyby Spacecraft |
Instrument | Solid-State Imaging (SSI) | |
Detector | ||
Extra Keywords | Grayscale | |
Acquisition Date | ||
Release Date | 1997-09-07 | |
Date in Caption | ||
Image Credit | NASA/JPL | |
Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00705 | |
Identifier | PIA00705 |