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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This book tells the story of the Galileo space probe and the astonishing things it has told us about Jupiter-and the new questions it has raised in the course of its mission, which has lasted well over a decade. The spacecraft, which has spent more than five years orbiting the planet, is arguably the most successful NASA space vehicle since Apollo 11. It has survived political indifference, legal challenges, software glitches, a balky high-gain antenna, and, with some damage, intense radiation bombardment-and it is still flying, still sending us extraordinary treasures of data from Jupiter and its moons. By the end of its mission, Galileo will have traveled an extraordinary 2.8 billion miles and sent back more than 15,000 images of astonishing detail. Mission Jupiter tells the amazing story of Galileo, including its interplanetary "pas de deux" with the Cassini Saturn probe. Beautifully illustrated with some of the most recent and spectacular images from the mission, and clearly written by noted science writer Daniel Fisher, Mission Jupiter shows us space exploration at its most exciting and rewarding.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Foreword to the Original Edition.

-Foreword to the English Edition.

-Contents.

-1. The Long Journey to Jupiter.

-December 7, 1995: Rendez-vous with a Giant.
-The King of Planets Has Always Beckoned.
-The First Pioneers.
-The Voyagers' "Grand Tour".
-From an Idea to a Billion-Dollar Spacecraft.

-2. Discoveries Under Way.

-The Trip to Venus.
-The Mission Begins.
-"Cruising" to Venus and Back.
-Learning About Earth's Sister Planet.
-Return to Earth.
-Is There Life on Earth?
-The Darkest Hour.
-Gaspra: The First Encounter with an Asteroid.
-Scenarios for Living Without the Main Antenna.
-Off to Jupiter!
-The Second Return to Earth.
-The Second Asteroid: Ida and Its Little Moon.
-Front-Row Seats for the Comet Crash.

-3. Arrival and the Atmospheric Probe.

-Four Hundred Years of Jupiter Research.
-Finally There: The Task of the Atmospheric Probe.
-Arrival Day.
-The Hour of Truth.
-Analysis.
-The Cruise Begins.

-4. Looping from Moon to Moon.

-Ganymede: A Ball of Ice with Furrows and a Magnetic Field.
-Deciphering Jupiter's Colourful Clouds.
-An Ocean Under Europa's Icy Crust?
-Beyond the Visible: Jupiter's Powerful Magnetosphere.
-Io the Miracle Moon: Endless Volcanic Activity.
-Even More: A Ring, Mini-Moons, and Dust Streams.
-Callisto, the Outsider.
-Jupiter and the Four Galilean Moons-A Planetary System in Miniature.

-5. What the Future Holds in Store.

-Galileo Flies On.
-Another Mission Extension-and Another One.
-Beyond Galileo: Keeping Our Sights on Europa.
-The Future Has Begun: Cassini on the Way to Saturn.

-Timeline.

-Keep Up to Date!

-Index.