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| Target: |
Ganymede - Galileo Regio |
| Date of Observation: |
June 27, 1996 |
| # of Frames in mosaic: |
5 |
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Description of the Area:
This area contains furrows
of several orientations.
In some cases the furrows cross-cut
one another. There are also intervening patches of
dark smooth material, which might be volcanic
in origin. In the center where all the frames overlap, there is a
feature that could either be a small
palimpsest (an ancient impact scar) or a crater which is partly
buried by material that emanated from a furrow or other source.
Questions we hope to answer:
- What is the morphology of
the furrows and what are the relative ages of features in
Galileo Regio?
- What is the geological history of the
dark terrain in this location?
- What are the albedo patterns
in the dark terrain and what can they
tell us about the geology and physical details of those regions?
- What are the crater morphologies like in this region?
- How are Ganymede craters similar to or different from
craters on other planetary bodies?
High resolution pictures of Galileo
Regio terrain will be analyzed with respect to relations between
furrows, the region's dark materials, and the partially filled-in
crater.
