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Nergal crater is a crater on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. It has a distinctive ejecta blanket surrounding it that’s darker nearer the craters and brighter further away. The inner region of the ejecta is characterized by a lobate appearance indicative of the flow of a liquid (or slushy) substance over the surface. The flow was probably icy surface material melted by the energy released during the impact that formed the crater.

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