Callisto in color from Galileo orbit E11

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The filters used for this image cover a broader range of the spectrum than human eyes can see.  Galileo was 687,000 kilometers from Callisto when it took this image, at a phase angle of just 1 degree.  Image scale is 6.9 kilometers per pixel. The image was reconstructed from the original data by Ted Stryk.  About 10% of the right side of the disk was marred by data dropouts; Stryk reconstructed missing data from images taken through other filters.

Copyright holder: Ted Stryk

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about November 5, 1997