APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Callisto in True Color
Explanation: 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.
| Date | May 11, 1998 |
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| Credit | Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |