PIA00705: Detail of Ganymede's Uruk Sulcus Region as Viewed by Galileo and Voyager

Target Name: Ganymede Is a satellite of: Jupiter Mission: Galileo Spacecraft: Galileo Orbiter Instrument: Solid-State Imaging Product Size: 1097 samples x 885 lines Produced By: JPL Producer ID: P74501 MRPS74501 Addition Date: 1997-09-07 Primary Data Set: Galileo EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA00705.tif (1.014 MB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA00705.jpg (236.1 kB)

Original Caption Released with Image: View of the region of Ganymede's Uruk Sulcus placed on a lower resolution Voyager view taken 17 years earlier. 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 be 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. 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 URL http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo Image Credit: NASA/JPL