Twenty years ago today -- February 9, 1990* -- the Galileo spacecraft flew by Venus in a course-adjustment maneuver on its way to Jupiter. The probe passed about 10,000 miles (16,000 km) above our sister planet. (Venus images from the Galileo spacecraft, taken through violet and infrared filters. NASA image.) The Venus flyby gave the mission team the chance to test out Galileo's cameras ...
Ten years ago today -- January 3, 2000 -- the Galileo space probe made a flyby of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. (Natural and false color images of Europa. NASA image. Click to enlarge.) ... the spacecraft flew over Jupiter's icy moon Europa on Monday morning, January 3, at an altitude of 351 kilometers (218 miles). Galileo then performed observations of three of Jupiter's smaller moons -- Amalthea, Thebe and Metis -- at 7:30 p.m. Pacific Standard ...
Thirty-five years ago today -- November 3, 1974 -- while on approach to its December flyby of Jupiter, the Pioneer-11 spacecraft sent back the first polar images of Jupiter, according to this NASA site. (First image of Jupiter's polar region, by Pioneer-11. NASA image from the National Air & Space Museum.) We'll have more about the Pioneer-11 flyby in December, when it made ...
Twenty years ago today -- October 18, 1989 -- Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-34. Astronauts Donald E. Williams, Michael J. McCulley, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, Shannon W. Lucid and Ellen S. Baker launched the Galileo spacecraft shortly after arriving in orbit. (STS-34 mission patch. Click to enlarge.) Nearly six years later, on July 13, 1995, Galileo rendezvous with the planet Jupiter and released its ...
Fifteen years ago today -- July 18, 1994 -- fragment G of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet hit the planet Jupiter. Pieces of the comet had started impacting the gas giant on July 16, and continued to bombard it until July 22. (Hubble Space Telescope images of the Shoemaker-Levy "Fragment G" impact. The bottom image shows the plume about 5 minutes after impact on July 18, 1994, and the next shows the "fresh impact ...
Updated 07-18-2009 at 10:38 AM by Gray Rinehart
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