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NASA: Galileo Project

DESCRIPTION

Galileo is a spacecraft studying Jupiter's atmosphere, moons, and magnetic environment. Launched in 1989, the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, and fired its main engine for 49 minutes for a successful orbit capture around Jupiter. On the same day, Galileo's atmospheric probe plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere, and relayed information on the structure and composition of the solar system's largest planet. The spacecraft's orbiter will spend the next two years orbiting the giant planet, studying Jupiter and its moons (encountering one moon during each orbit), and returning a steady stream of images and scientific data.

PROCEDURES

  1. Use your WWW browser to access the site whose URL is:
    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/

  2. Explore the site. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site location for future use.

  3. Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.

This lesson is part of the series "DO-IT Lessons" developed by the University of Washington. Creation of the series of lessons is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers 9255803 and 9550003. The lessons are now maintained through funds from the State of Washington. The University of Washington holds the copyright to the series of lessons, however ownership of the Internet resources referenced in the lessons may be found at the resource site. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at these sites are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington or the State of Washington.

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