Callisto in True Color

Astronomy Picture of the Day · 1998-05-11 · NASA (public domain)

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Callisto in True Color — APOD for 1998-05-11

Callisto's surface has many stories to tell. The most distant of Jupiter 's Galilean Moons , Callisto shows the highest density of impact craters in the Solar System, but harbors no volcanoes or even any large mountains. Callisto 's surface is laced with cracks and craters from billions of years of collisions with interplanetary debris. This image shows Callisto's true colors, and was taken in November 1997 by the robot spacecraft Galileo currently orbiting Jupiter.

Astronomy Picture of the Day for 1998-05-11 — image & explanation courtesy of NASA (public domain), mirrored at Tukuk-OS for reading and search convenience.

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