Callisto Mosaic

Callisto was revealed by NASA's Voyager cameras to be a heavily cratered and hence geologically inactive world.
August 12, 1996
CreditNASA/JPL
PIA NumberPIA00080
Language
  • english

Callisto was revealed by the Voyager cameras to be a heavily cratered and hence geologically inactive world. This mosaic of Voyager 1 images, obtained on March 6 from a distance of about 400,000 kilometers, shows surface detail as small as 10 kilometers across. The prominent old impact feature Valhalla has a central bright spot about 600 kilometers across, probably representing the original impact basin. The concentric bright rings extend outward about 1500 kilometers from the impact center.