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Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida.Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe.
Galileo was an American robotic space program that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Galileo spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe.
The Galileo project would have been considered a success even if the spacecraft had stayed operational only through the end of the primary mission on 7 December 1997, two years after Jupiter arrival. The orbiter was an extremely robust machine, however, with many backup systems.
Starting with Galileo's first orbit, the spacecraft's camera, the Solid-State Imager (SSI), began taking one or two images per orbit of Io while the moon was in Jupiter's shadow. This allowed Galileo to monitor high-temperature volcanic activity on Io by observing thermal emission sources across its surface. [68]
Discovered in 1610 by Galileo, Europa has been studied by NASA's Voyager probes and, much more extensively, by the agency's aptly-named Galileo orbiter in the 1990s, which made a dozen close flybys.
also flew by various of Jupiter's moons; intentionally flown into Jupiter at end of mission; first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter; first spacecraft to flyby an asteroid 1989-084B Galileo Probe: NASA: 7 December 1995 atmospheric probe success first probe to enter Jupiter's atmosphere 1989-084E: Cassini: NASA/ ESA/ ASI: December 2000 flyby success
The Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off at 12:06 p.m. ET, and will travel 1.8 billion miles over more than five years to reach Jupiter. ... Voyager 2 and Galileo missions — but this will be the ...
While multiple spacecraft have visited the Jovian moon since the 1960s, those previous two flybys were the closest any had gotten to Io's surface since the Galileo probe made numerous close flybys ...