Close Encounter:
Galileo Eyes Io
Craft records a hot time on a Jovian moon
The Galileo
spacecraft braved bombardment by Jupiter’s radiation belts to record
the closest images ever taken of the giant planet’s volcanically
active moon, Io.
Further Readings:
Cowen, R. 1999.
Galileo takes close-up snapshots of Io. Science News 156(Oct.
30):276.
Additional
information about Io is available at http://www.spaceart.com/solar/eng/io.htm.
Sources:
Torrence V.
Johnson
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Mailstop Code 183-501
Pasadena, CA 91109-8099
Sue Kieffer
Kieffer & Woo, Inc.
The Kieffer Institute for Development of Science-Based Education
P.O. Box 130
Palgrave, Ontario LON 1PO
Canada
Alfred S. McEwen
University of Arizona
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Kuiper Space Sciences Building
Tucson, AZ 85721
Carl B. Pilcher
NASA
Office of Space Science
Code S
Washington, DC 20546
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 24, December 11, 1999, p. 382. Copyright ©
1999, Science Service. |