The release of new images of Jupiter's largest moon by NASA is allowing the world to get a close-up look at another world.
Images of Ganymede were taken from the space agency's unmanned spacecraft, Juno. And more are coming in the days ahead.
Juno's flyby of Ganymede is providing the closest images of the moon in two decades, and the images are clearer than ever.
Like Earth's moon, the photographs show Ganymede with dark patches on its lighter, overall dull color.
But it appears less pock-marked by craters than the Earth's moon, with long lines, or ridges, that crisscross the icy orb, almost looking like rows of farm fields from above.
NASA said the ridges are possibly linked to tectonic faults.
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