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"Complete colour international maps and high-resolution mosaics of Jupiter's 4 huge moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - are compiled for the 1st time during this very important atlas. The satellites are printed as 4 visually outstanding and geologically diversified planetary our bodies: Io's volcanic lavas and plumes and towering mountains; Europa's fissured ice floor; the craters, fractures and polar caps of Ganymede; and
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6). If so, Callisto (and the other satellites) did not get very warm during formation, or melting and differentiation would have occurred here. Otherwise, Callisto has been geologically quiet for most of its history. Callisto has never been part of the orbital resonance responsible for melting parts of Io, Europa, and briefly, Ganymede. This may be why Callisto was “left out,” banished perhaps by an angry Artemis. ” Ganymede, the largest of the natural satellites, is a larger and flashier twin to outermost Callisto.
These frosts darken with time at a steady, if unknown but likely latitude- and longitude-dependent, rate. Thus the general age of a crater can be guessed by the brightness of its ejecta. On the Moon, bright-rayed craters are generally less than 500 million years old. Whether that is true on the Galilean satellites has not yet been determined, but can be assumed so for the time being. Impact craters can also tell us about the structure or composition of the deeper interior. As described earlier, the degree of topographic relaxation in older craters, especially palimpsests and penepalimpsests, can be used to estimate heat flows in the past, much more cheaply than installing a thermal probe on the surface and building a time machine.
Arcuate and interwoven dark reddish-brown strands densely cross the surface, interspersed with The satellites scattered dark spots. These long features resemble bubbly strands of dark paint on a white canvas. The impression is particularly striking where the midday Sun enhances the dark contrasting overlapping linear swaths (see especially Plate Je6). On close examination, the surface of Europa is very intense. The canvas of dark spots and streaks on white devolves into very dense and complex crosscutting patterns.
