Callisto: Dark Smashed Iceball

Astronomy Picture of the Day · 1995-09-06 · NASA (public domain)

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Callisto: Dark Smashed Iceball — APOD for 1995-09-06

Callisto is a dirty battered world, showing the most beaten surface of Jupiter 's major moons. Made of a rocky core covered by fractured ice, Callisto 's past collisions with large meteors are evident as large craters surrounded by concentric rings. The four largest moons of Jupiter: Io , Europa , Ganymede , and Callisto were all discovered by Galileo and Marius in 1610 with early telescopes and are now known as the Galilean satellites. The NASA spacecraft Galileo is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter is December of 1995.

Astronomy Picture of the Day for 1995-09-06 — image & explanation courtesy of NASA (public domain), mirrored at Tukuk-OS for reading and search convenience.

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