Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is a study in contrasts: Bright swaths of pure, frozen water slice through darker, heavily cratered ice. New stereo images of Ganymede suggest these swaths are the aftermath of eruptions of water or slushy ice that gave parts of the moon a facelift a billion or more years ago.
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