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 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. This picture shows a segment of a Galileo image of the Galileo Regio region on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Features in the curved furrows that characterize this region can be seen even with very high sun illumination.
North is to the top of the picture.
The finest details that can discerned are about 80 meters across. Nippur Sulcus Region on Ganymede New terrain overlays older terrain, which overlays still older surface, in this view of part of the surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, taken by the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Galileo obtained the images that make up this mosaic when it flew past Jupiter's moon Ganymede for the second time on September 6, 1996. The key characteristics and relationships of the major terrain types on tectonically active Ganymede are seen at a resolution 16 times better than images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979. At the bottom, the ancient dark terrain is seen to be very deformed by tectonic fractures and faults.