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Image taken on 6/27/96.The number of impact craters seen in this image of Ganymede testify to the terrain'sgreat age, dating back several billion years. The image's left edge slices through a 19-kilometer-diameter (12-mile) crater. The dark and bright lines running from lower right to upper left and from top to bottom are deep furrows in the ancient crustof dirty water ice. P-48113
D = 7,563 km
Res= 80 m
Size = 46x64 km(inset)
Centered at 18° N 147° W
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