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English: Photo of Ganymede, obtained by the Galileo spacecraft, with enhanced contrast. This is a crop of Image:The Galilean satellites (the four largest moons of Jupiter).tif (PIA01299)

Here is the description from JPL's web entry for PIA00716 (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00716):

Natural color view of Ganymede from the Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the satellite. North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from the right. The dark areas are the older, more heavily cratered regions and the light areas are younger, tectonically deformed regions. The brownish-gray color is due to mixtures of rocky materials and ice. Bright spots are geologically recent impact craters and their ejecta. The finest details that can be discerned in this picture are about 13.4 kilometers across. The images which combine for this color image were taken beginning at Universal Time 8:46:04 UT on June 26, 1996.

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.
Date (date of composite release); Galileo image taken on 26 June 1996.
Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01299
Author NASA/JPL/DLR
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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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current21:42, 4 June 2005Thumbnail for version as of 21:42, 4 June 2005539 × 550 (136 KB)Dbenbenncropped TIF at 539x550+780+41, converted to JPG at 95% quality
14:10, 30 March 2005Thumbnail for version as of 14:10, 30 March 2005289 × 289 (12 KB)Helix84crop from Image:Galilean satellites.jpg {{PD-USGov-NASA}}

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