Galileo scientists are in the process of calibrating and validating this data. The full digital image necessary for scientific analysis will be released within one year of receipt of this orbit's last data. These are the best images available to show topographic features over most of this region. The map projection is called Simple Cylindrical, and the grid lines mark 10 degree intervals of latitude and longitude. The mosaic covers an area of about 8 million square kilometers, and the finest details that can discerned are about 2.5 kilometers in size.
North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from the left.
The spacecraft's mission is to conduct detailed studies of the giant planet, its largest moons and the Jovian magnetic environment.