伽利略號木星及其衛星探測任務

很少有科學家認為,受技術問題困擾的伽利略號宇宙飛船能夠對木星系統進行如此全面的研究。而且,很少有人預測到這些世界內部會如此多樣。

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