Juno caught some wonderful images of Ganymede as it flew by. The pictures show striations caused by tectonic activity and craters in the icy surface. They show dark and light areas, but the best is yet to come.
The spacecraft should also have snapped pictures that can be processed into the first color images of Ganymede. Because deep space probes have limited bandwidth, it's going to take a while to actually get those images back to Earth, but when we do, we'll know what Ganymede really looks like.
In the meantime, just take a look at the wonders on the other side of that link.
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