In the end, the Galileo spacecraft will get a taste of Jupiter before taking a final plunge into the planet's crushing atmosphere, ending the mission on Sunday, Sept. 21. The team expects the ...

Galileo was launched in 1989, and it circled Jupiter 34 times. Over the years, its discoveries were so extraordinary, they even inspired an unusual tribute called "Galileo, The Emotional Life of a ...

Analysis of Galileo's Jupiter entry probe reveals gaps in heat shield modeling. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 10 / 191015110659.htm.

The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion, generating enough heat to cause plasma reactions on its surface. The data relayed about ...

With no more planned encounters with Jupiter's moons, Galileo will coast for the next seven months before transmitting a few hours of science data before its 21 September plunge into the gas giant ...

Depiction of Galileo’s arrival at Jupiter in 1995. NASA. Now, 13 years after its launch, the mission is winding down. ... We’re still learning from it By McKenzie Prillaman July 11, 2025.

Galileo itself reached Jupiter on Dec. 7, 1995, beginning its years of circling the planet and its moons. These global views of Jupiter's icy moon Europa were captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft ...

Galileo realized that since the moons of Jupiter obeyed Kepler's laws, they could serve as a kind of heavenly clock. A clock more precise than any human-made clock of the time.

Galileo’s observations of the moons of Jupiter provided physical proof of Copernicus’ heliocentric theory, which had previously been seen by the church and others as merely a mathematical ...

Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource was adapted from NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." In 1610, when Galileo first pointed his newly built telescope toward the ...

NASA's aging Galileo spacecraft concluded its 14-year, exploration of Jupiter and its moons on Sunday with a streaking suicide plunge into the planet's turbulent atmosphere.