伽利略号木星及其卫星探测任务

很少有科学家认为,受技术问题困扰的伽利略号宇宙飞船能够对木星系统进行如此全面的研究。而且,很少有人预测到这些世界内部会如此多样。

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Galileo Probes Jupiter's Atmosphere. special section in Science, Vol. 272, pages 837-860; May 10, 1996.

Galileo Orbiter. Special section in Science, Vol. 274, pages 377-413; October 18, 1996.

Remote Sensing of the Galileo Orbiter Mission. Special issue of Icarus, Vol. 135, No. 1; September 1998.

The New Solar System. Fourth edition. Edited by J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Peterson and Andrew Chaikin. Sky Publishing, 1999.

Encyclopedia of the Solar System. Edited by Paul R. Weissman, Lucy-Ann McFadden and Torrence V. Johnson. Academic Press, 1999.

Galileo Mission Home Page from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Galileo Experiments and Data

Galileo Probe Site from NASA Ames Research Center

TORRENCE V. JOHNSON has an asteroid named after him: 2614 Torrence, a body about one kilometer in diameter. Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., he has been the project scientist for Galileo since 1977--some three quarters of his career as a planetary scientist. He was a member of the imaging team for Voyager and is now on the imaging team for the Cassini mission to Saturn.

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大众科学 Magazine Vol 282 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “The Galileo Mission to Jupiter and Its Moons” in 大众科学 Magazine Vol. 282 No. 2 ()
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