The sequence was described as a global color sequence, although it was never fully global and only part of the color coverage was returned due to Galileo’s antenna woes (it's main antenna failed to open, forcing it to send back data at a rate an order of magnitude worse than a bad dial-up modem).

While Galileo got a lot of closeups throughout its mission, this prevented it from returning many large global and regional views at both high resolution and in color, views we are accustomed to from other missions. However, this mosaic was relatively complete, and there was enough lower resolution data from other parts of the mission to fill in the missing color.

This mosaic, showing a variety of terrains being bisected by prominent lineaments, serves to whet our appetites for what we hope to see from NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which will arrive in the latter half of the next decade. Until then, milking Galileo (and Voyager) data to the last drop will have to do.