伽利略號木星及其衛星探測任務

伽利略號探測器,雖然飽受技術問題困擾,但仍然對木星系統進行了全面的研究。很少有人預料到這些天體的內部結構會如此多樣化。

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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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