伽利略号木星及其卫星探测任务

伽利略号探测器,虽然饱受技术问题困扰,但仍然对木星系统进行了全面的研究。很少有人预料到这些天体的内部结构会如此多样化。

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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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SA Special Editions Vol 13 Issue 3sThis article was originally published with the title “The Galileo Mission to Jupiter and its Moons” in SA Special Editions Vol. 13 No. 3s (), p. 54
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0903-54sp
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