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JUPITER : SATELLITE CALLISTO



Credit : NASA
Callisto's surface seen by Voyager.


The space probe Voyager took pictures of the surface of the Galilean satellites. On Callisto, this amazing image of a lined chain of impact craters was obtained. 




These impacts remind us the break and the fall of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. It seems that this type of disaster is quite common.