In the lower left of this image, a portion of one of the dark wedge areas is visible, revealing a linear texture along the trend of the wedge. The two orientations visible in this image reflect the fact that we are looking at a dog-leg in the wedge, where it changes orientation slightly. In the right hand part of the image, older, bright background is criss-crossed with ridges. A large bright ridge trends east-west through the upper part of the image, cutting across both the older background plains and the wedge. This ridge is rough in texture, having numerous small terraces and troughs along it, which contain dark material.
North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from the northwest.
This spectacular image shows a region of ridged plains on Europa. The plains are comprised of many parallel and cross-cutting ridges, commonly in pairs. The majority of the region is of very bright, but darker material is seen primarily in valleys between ridges. Some of the most prominent ridges have dark deposits along their margins and in their central valleys. Some of this dark material probably moved down the flanks of the ridges, and has piled up along their bases.