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Re: New Galileo Images Of Ganymede Available On July 15



>NEW GALILEO PICTURES OF JUPITER'S MOON, GANYMEDE AVAILABLE
>
>	New high-resolution images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft of 
>Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, will be unveiled Wednesday, July 15, 
>on NASA TV and on the Internet at:  
>
>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
 
>The images were taken by Galileo's camera during several Ganymede flybys
>between June 1996 and June 1997.  They reveal impact craters with unusual
>pedestals, dark ejecta haloes, evidence of tectonic activity and possible
>signs of icy volcanic flows.  A crater chain seems to be the result of
>impacts from a broken-up comet, like the 1994 Shoemaker-Levy impact on
>Jupiter. 

These images will be on the website at 8AM (PDT), in about 45 minutes.

Ron Baalke

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