Galileo's complete Ida and Dactyl image catalog

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Galileo's complete Ida and Dactyl image catalog

This is a complete catalog of all of the photos captured by Galileo that include any of Ida and its satellite Dactyl during its encounter on August 28, 1993. Vertical stacks of images were captured close to each other in time through different-color filters. Horizontal lines crossing individual images are data gaps.

NASA / JPL / Emily Lakdawalla

You can download all these data in their original PDS format as well as PNG versions in this 8MB Zip file.

Copyright holder: Emily Lakdawalla

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 August 28, 1993