Download Ganymede Moon Surface Features Pictures. Some of the craters even exhibit rays of ejecta material. About half of the surface is old and cratered while the rest consists of much younger, lighter regions.
In Depth Ganymede Nasa Solar System Exploration from solarsystem.nasa.gov
In the series, return to jupiter, ganymede is the mining colony location. Unlike the moon, however, craters on ganymede lack ring mountains and central. Ganymede's surface is rich in water ice and voyager and galileo images show features which are evidence of geological and tectonic disruption of the surface in the past.
This morning, after i processed them, i thought ganymede looked a bit strange.
What does the largest moon in the solar system look like? This map illustrates the incredible variety of geological features on ganymede and helps to make order from the apparent chaos of its complex surface, said robert pappalardo of nasa's jet. The figure shown to the right is a galileo spacecraft image of the third galilean moon, ganymede , which has the distinction of being the largest moon in the solar system. The most striking features are the volcanoes.
