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Galileo's No Turkey

On Thanksgiving Day, while most of us were munching on our feast, NASA's Galileo spacecraft survived another encounter with Jupiter's fiery moon Io, but not without giving ground controllers something to worry about. As this news article from NASA's Space Science News website points out, Galileo braved extreme radiation as it plunged toward an extremely close encounter with Io's volcanoes. Meanwhile, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent new commands to the spacecraft to bring it out of danger. To supplement this exciting story, this page helpfully includes a host of related links about the Galileo probe, Jupiter, and space exploration in general.

Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:32:11 -0800