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Ganymede Groove Lanes |
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by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) |
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An ancient dark terrain surface is cut by orthogonal sets |
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of fractures on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Subdued pits |
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visible on unbroken blocks are the remnants of impact |
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craters which have degraded with time. Across the top of |
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the image, a line of these subdued pits may have been a |
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chain of craters which are now cut apart by the northwest |
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to southeast trending fractures. North is to the top. |
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Younger craters appear as bright circles. The fractures |
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in this image range from less than 100 meters (328 feet) |
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to over a kilometer (0.62 miles) in width. They display |
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bright walls where cleaner ice may be exposed, and |
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deposits of dark material fill their floors. This 27 by |
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22 kilometer (17 by 14 mile) image of northern Marius |
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Regio was obtained on September 6, 1996 by NASA's Galileo |
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spacecraft at a resolution of 85 meters (278 feet) per |
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picture element (pixel). The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, |
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Pasadena, CA manages the Galileo mission for NASA's |
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Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. JPL is an |
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operating division of California Institute of Technology |
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(Caltech). This image and other images and data received |
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from Galileo are posted on the World Wide Web, on the |
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Galileo mission home page at URL |
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http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov. Background information and |
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educational context for the images can be found at URL |
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo |
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Date Published: 2009-09-24 22:45:47 |
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Identifier: NIX-PIA01056 |
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Item Size: 34593 |
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Media Type: image |
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# Topics |
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What -- Moon |
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What -- Ganymede |
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What -- Galileo |
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Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) |
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Where -- Washington |
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Where -- California |
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