All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

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"All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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October 18, 1989
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Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist a.k.a. VEEGA
was a first. The mission planning guys figured
out how to do that with Galileo.
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"My car license plate says VEEGA,' Every
morning, I go out and I see the word. Roger
Diehl Trajectory specialist
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Venus flyby February 10, 1990
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Goodbye Home December 11, 1990, from about 1.3
million miles away.
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Galileo discovered Dactyl orbiting the asteroid
Ida.
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"I popped in these two wonderful 8x10s and
became the first human being to see a stereo
image of an asteroid at high resolution! That
entire weekend, anyone who came close to my door
was dragged over Look at this! You know, the
mailman, the babysitter. That was really a
thrill." Paul Geissler Planetary geologist
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Galileo was the first spacecraft to observe an
impact into a planetary body, when comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter.
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July 22, 1994
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First probe into a gas giants atmosphere
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With only a week to go, I'm really excited. It's
hard to sleep at night I have to just give up
and write out what I'm thinking Even doing that
I can't always get back to sleep, but sometimes
it works. Jim Erickson November 27, 1995 Probe
Release
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The signal came about 6 minutes later than I had
been expecting, so I was getting very fearful
that something had gone wrong. When the
confirmation finally came through, I was nearly
in tears from the joy of knowing that we had done
it! Leslie Tamppari December 11, 1995 Probe
Release
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Galileo discovered a possible ocean on Callisto.
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Jupiter's moon Callisto
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Famous last words "We will never want to do
on-board management of the tape recorder..."
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Galileo discovered that Jupiter has thunderstorms
1,000 times larger than those on Earth.
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Water Cloud Thunderstorm Northwest of Great Red
Spot
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Galileo observes thunderheads and lightning in
Jupiter's atmosphere.
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Jupiter Lightning
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Galileos Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
(NIMS) discovers fresh ammonia clouds on
Jupiter.
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Jupiter's multi level clouds September 5, 1996
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NIMS looks at the Great Red Spot
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Galileo observes volcanic activity on Io.
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Eruption on Io June 28, 1996
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Io Oct. 16, 2001
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Voyager-1979
Galileo - 1997
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"There was always something to fix. It kept me
busy.'' Greg Levanas Engineer
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Volcanic plumes on Io
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Color Mosaic and Active Volcanic Plumes on
Io November 17, 1997
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Io's Culann-Tohil Region
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New Galileo Images Hint At Wet And Wild History
For Europa NASA Press Release April 9, 1997

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Solar System's Largest Moon Likely has a Hidden
Ocean NASA Press Release Ganymede December 16,
2000
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Ganymede - Ancient Impact Craters in Galileo Regio
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Ganymede
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Simultaneous observation of the Jupiter system by
two spacecraft (Cassini and Galileo)
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Galileo and Cassini spacecraft in late December
2000 and early January 2001.
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Jupiter's rings found to be composed of debris
from Jupiter's small inner satellites
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Jupiter's Inner Satellites and Rings
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Jupiter's Inner Satellites and Ring Components
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Jupiter's Ring System
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Jupiter's Main Ring/Ring Halo
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"It's not going to go on forever. Everything has
to end. It's going to be a sad day though.
Andy Ingersoll Scientist
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If we found life someplace else it would give us
a vastly new perspective on existence. We would
probably realize that we weren't quite so
important as we thought we were. I mean, it
might take us down a peg, which could be
useful. Randy Tufts Former geologist at the
University of Arizona (1949-2002)
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We will be back