Galileo
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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. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission, and arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, after gravity assist flybys of Venus and Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter. The spacecraft then launched the first probe to directly measure its atmosphere. Despite suffering major antenna problems, Galileo achieved the first asteroid flyby, of 951 Gaspra, and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around 243 Ida. In 1994, Galileo observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision with Jupiter.
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Galileo program; Galileo project; Jupiter Orbiter Probe mission
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Galileo - PPR photo - ppr1
Galileo - EUVS - euv1
Galileo - NIMS photo - nims1
Shuttle-Centaur with Galileo
Galileo Energetic Particles Detector
Galileo - UVS photo - uvs1
Galielo - EPD photo - epd1
Galileo Heavy Ion Counter
Galileo - PLS photo - pls1
Galileo - PWS photo - pws1- Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 76@ issue published in 1995
- Solar and thermal radiation in Jupiter's atmosphere: initial results of the Galileo probe net flux radiometer@ scientific article published on May 1996
- The Galileo probe mass spectrometer: composition of Jupiter's atmosphere@ scientific article
- Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 78 - issue published in 1996 (English)
- Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 88 - issue published in 2000 (English)
- Galileo ultraviolet spectrometer observations of atomic hydrogen in the atmosphere of Ganymede - article (Q1860)
- Galileo Photopolarimeter-Radiometer Observations of Jupiter and the Galilean Satellites - scientific article published in Science (Q1860)
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| commons | image | Galileo - PPR photo - ppr1 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galileo - EUVS - euv1 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galileo - NIMS photo - nims1 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Shuttle-Centaur with Galileo | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galileo Energetic Particles Detector | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galileo - UVS photo - uvs1 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galielo - EPD photo - epd1 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galileo Heavy Ion Counter | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galileo - PLS photo - pls1 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Galileo - PWS photo - pws1 | Commons | ||
