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Gaspra, Deimos, and Phobos. NASA public domain image colelction.

Gaspra, Deimos, and Phobos. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description: (1977) This montage shows asteroid 951 Gaspra (top) compared with Deimos (lower left) and Phobos (lower right), the moons of Mars. The three bodies are shown at the same scale and nearly the same l... More

Parachutes - Galileo Spacecraft

Parachutes - Galileo Spacecraft

A parachute for the Galileo spacecraft is tested in a wind tunnel. Galileo consisted of an orbiter and an atmosphere probe that descended into Jupiter's atmosphere on a parachute after being braked by a heat sh... More

Parachutes - Galileo Spacecraft

Parachutes - Galileo Spacecraft

A parachute for the Galileo spacecraft is tested in a wind tunnel. Galileo consisted of an orbiter and an atmosphere probe that descended into Jupiter's atmosphere on a parachute after being braked by a heat shield

S34-71-0AP - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AP - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-72-069 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

S34-72-069 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) deployed. Subject Terms: GALILEO SPACECRAFT, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE,... More

S34-71-0AQ - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AQ - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AN - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AN - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00D - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00D - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AB - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AB - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AD - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AD - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00J - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00J - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00U - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00U - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-72-072 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

S34-72-072 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) deployed. Subject Terms: GALILEO SPACECRAFT, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE,... More

S34-71-00H - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00H - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00G - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00G - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AF - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AF - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-72-071 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

S34-72-071 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) deployed. Subject Terms: GALILEO SPACECRAFT, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE,... More

S34-71-0AE - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AE - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00C - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00C - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00S - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00S - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AK - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AK - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AT - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AT - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AX - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AX - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-72-074 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

S34-72-074 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) deployed. Subject Terms: GALILEO SPACECRAFT, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE,... More

S34-71-0AM - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AM - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00B - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00B - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-72-076 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

S34-72-076 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) deployed. Subject Terms: GALILEO SPACECRAFT, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE,... More

S34-71-00F - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00F - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AV - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AV - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AU - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AU - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00Z - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00Z - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AR - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AR - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00E - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00E - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00V - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00V - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00W - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00W - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00M - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00M - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AH - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AH - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00P - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00P - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00K - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00K - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00L - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00L - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00A - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00A - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00Q - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00Q - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AC - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AC - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AA - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AA - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00R - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00R - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-72-073 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

S34-72-073 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) deployed. Subject Terms: GALILEO SPACECRAFT, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE,... More

S34-71-00X - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00X - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-72-075 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

S34-72-075 - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployed

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) deployed. Subject Terms: GALILEO SPACECRAFT, INERTIAL UPPER STAGE,... More

S34-71-00T - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00T - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AS - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AS - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AW - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AW - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00N - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00N - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AJ - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AJ - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-00Y - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-00Y - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AG - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AG - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

S34-71-0AL - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in the payload bay

S34-71-0AL - STS-034 - Galileo spacecraft/IUS deployment sequence in t...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing the Galileo spacecraft/Inertial Upper Stage (IUD) deployment sequence in the payload bay of the orbiter Atlantis duri... More

STS-34 ATLANTIS - ORBITER VEHICLE (OV)-104 - CREW INSIGNIA

STS-34 ATLANTIS - ORBITER VEHICLE (OV)-104 - CREW INSIGNIA

S89-20077 (17 July 1989) --- The triangular shape of the STS-34 crew patch represents forward motion and the entering into new frontiers of science, engineering and technology. The Galileo spacecraft overlaying... More

STS-34 Galileo processing at KSC's SAEF-2 planetary spacecraft facility

STS-34 Galileo processing at KSC's SAEF-2 planetary spacecraft facilit...

At the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Spacecraft and Assembly Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2), the planetary spacecraft checkout facility, clean-suited technicians work on the Galileo spacecraft prior to movi... More

Artist concept of Galileo with inertial upper stage (IUS) in low Earth orbit

Artist concept of Galileo with inertial upper stage (IUS) in low Earth...

S89-42940 (April 1989) --- In this artist's rendition, the Galileo spacecraft is being boosted into its inter-planetary trajectory by the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) rocket. The Space Shuttle Atlantis, which is... More

Artist concept of Galileo encountering Io during its Jupiter approach

Artist concept of Galileo encountering Io during its Jupiter approach

Artist concept shows Galileo spacecraft while still approaching Jupiter having a satellite encounter. Galileo is flying about 600 miles above Io's volcano-torn surface, twenty times closer than the closest flyb... More

Line drawing of the Galileo spacecraft's encounters on its way to Jupiter

Line drawing of the Galileo spacecraft's encounters on its way to Jupi...

Line drawing charts the Galileo spacecraft's launch from low Earth orbit and its three planetary and two asteroid encounters in the course of its gravity-assisted flight to Jupiter. These encounters include Ven... More

Labeled line drawing of Galileo spacecraft's atmospheric probe

Labeled line drawing of Galileo spacecraft's atmospheric probe

Labeled line drawing entitled GALILEO PROBE identifies the deceleration module aft cover, descent module, and deceleration module aeroshell configurations and dimensions prior to and during entry into Jupiter's... More

STS-34 crewmembers on 195 ft level of KSC LC Pad 39B during TCDT

STS-34 crewmembers on 195 ft level of KSC LC Pad 39B during TCDT

S89-46513 (15 Sept 1989) --- Three members of the STS-34 crew rehearse for their pre-launch procedures at Launch Pad 39B during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities at Kennedy Space Center (... More

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / inertial upper stage (IUS) deployment

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / inertial upper stage (IUS) deployment

STS034-72-070 (18 Oct 1989) --- Backdropped against the blackness of space, the Galileo spacecraft and its inertial upper stage (IUS) begin relative separation from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis. Th... More

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / IUS deployment taken by the IMAX camera

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / IUS deployment taken by the IMAX camera

S89-48714 (18 Oct 1989) --- This photograph was taken by the STS-34 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis and shows the Galileo spacecraft being deployed on Oct. 18, 1989 from the payload bay. Galileo is a sc... More

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / IUS deployment sequence in OV-104's payload bay

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / IUS deployment sequence in OV-104's payloa...

STS034-71-000AK (18 Oct 1989) --- Backdropped against the blackness of space, the Galileo spacecraft and its inertial upper stage (IUS) have just detached from a cradle-like device aboard the Earth-orbiting Spa... More

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / IUS deployment sequence in OV-104's payload bay

STS-34 Galileo spacecraft / IUS deployment sequence in OV-104's payloa...

During STS-34 mission, the Galileo spacecraft mounted atop the inertial upper stage (IUS) is tilted to a 58-degree deployment position by the airborne support equipment (ASE) aft frame tilt actuator (AFTA) tabl... More

Earth taken by Galileo after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist

Earth taken by Galileo after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist

Description: Near-infrared photograph of Earth was taken by Galileo spacecraft at 6:07 am Pacific Standard Time (PST), 12-11-90, at a range of about 1.32 million miles. Camera used light with a wavelength of 1 ... More

Range :  220,000 mi. (left)/350,000 mi. (right) These pictures of the Moon were taken by the Galileo spacecraft.  Image on the right shows the dark Oceanus Procellarum in the upper center, with Mare Imbrium above it and the smaller circular Mare Humorum below.  The Orientale Basin, with a small mare in its center, is on the lower left near the limb or edge.  Between stretches the cratered highland terrain, with scattered bright young craters on highlands and maria alike.  The left image shows the globe of the Moon rotated, putting Mare Imbrium on the eastern limb and moving the Orientale Basin almost to the center.  The extent of the cratered highlands on tghe far side is very apparent.,  At lower left, near the limb, is the South-Pole-Aitken basin, similar to Orientale but very much older and some 1,200 miles in diameter.  This feature was previously known as a large depression in the southern far side; this image shows its Orientale-like structure and darkness relative to surrounding highlands. ARC-1990-A91-2011

Range : 220,000 mi. (left)/350,000 mi. (right) These pictures of the ...

Range : 220,000 mi. (left)/350,000 mi. (right) These pictures of the Moon were taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Image on the right shows the dark Oceanus Procellarum in the upper center, with Mare Imbrium abo... More

Range :  60,000 miles These images are two versions of a near-infrafed map of lower-level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Galileo spacecraft.The map shows the turbulent, cloudy middle atmosphere some 30-33 miles above the surface, 6-10 miles below the visible cloudtops.  The image to the left  shows the radiant heat from the lower atmosphere (about 400 degrees F) ahining through the sulfuric acid clouds, which appear as much as 10 times darker than the bright gaps between clouds.  This cloud layer is at about 170 degrees F, at a pressure about 1/2 Earth's atmospheric pressure.  About 2/3 of the dark hemisphere is visible, centered on longitude 350 West, with bright slsivers of daylit high clouds visible at top and bottom left.  The right image, a modified negative, represents what scientists believe would be the visual appearance of this mid-level cloud deck in daylight, with the clouds reflecting sunlight instead of clocking out infrared from the hot planet and lower atmosphere.  Near the  equator, the clouds appear fluffy and clocky; farther north, they are stretched out into East-West filaments by winds estimated at more than 150 mph, while the poles are capped by thick clouds at this altitude.  The Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo is a combined mapping (imaging) and spectral instrument.  It can sense 408 contiguous wavelengths from 0.7 microns (deep red) to 5.2 microns, and can construct a map or image by mechanical scanning.  It can spectroscopic-ally analyze atmospheres and surfaces and construct thermal and chemical maps. ARC-1990-A91-2002

Range : 60,000 miles These images are two versions of a near-infrafed...

Range : 60,000 miles These images are two versions of a near-infrafed map of lower-level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Galileo spacecraft.The ... More

Range :  1 million miles (1.63 million km) This image of the planet Venus was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft shortly befor 10pm PST when the space craft was directly above Venus' equator.  This is the 66th of more than 80 Venus images Galileo was programmed to take and record during its Venus flyby.  In the picture, cloud features as small as 25 miles (40 km) can be seen.  Patches of waves and convective clouds are superimpposed on the swirl of the planet's broad weather patterns, marked by the dark chevron at the center.  North is at the top.  The several ring-shaped shadows are blemishes, not planetary features.  The spacecraft imaging system has a 1500-mm, f/8.5 reflecting telescope; the exposure time was 1/40 second.  The image was taken through the violet filter (0.41 micron.).  It was produced by the imaging system in digital form, as a set of numbers representing the brightness perceived in each of the 640,000 picture elements defined on the solid-state plate, called a charged-coupled-device or CCD, on which the image was focused. ARC-1990-A91-2000

Range : 1 million miles (1.63 million km) This image of the planet Ve...

Range : 1 million miles (1.63 million km) This image of the planet Venus was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft shortly befor 10pm PST when the space craft was directly above Venus' equator. This is the 66th ... More

(P-37375) Moon craters as seen by Galileo spacecraft ARC-1990-A91-2012

(P-37375) Moon craters as seen by Galileo spacecraft ARC-1990-A91-2012

(P-37375) Moon craters as seen by Galileo spacecraft

Range :  1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System.  A high-pass spatial filter has been applied in order to emphasize the smaller-scale cloud features, and the rendition has been colorized to a bluish hue  in order to emphasize the subtle contrasts in the cloud markings and to indicate how it was taken through a violet filter.  The sulfuric acid clouds indicate considerable convective activity, in the equatorial regions of the planet to the left and downwind of the subsolar point (afternoon on Venus),  They are analogous to 'fair weather clouds' on Earth.  The filamentary dark features visible in the colorized image are here revealed to be composed of several dark nodules, like strings on a bead, each about 60 miles across. ARC-1990-AC91-2014

Range : 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galile...

Range : 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System. A high-pass spatial filter has been applied in order to emphasize the smaller-scale cloud featur... More

Range :  60,000 miles These images are two versions of a near-infrafed map of lower-level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Galileo spacecraft.The map shows the turbulent, cloudy middle atmosphere some 30-33 miles above the surface, 6-10 miles below the visible cloudtops.  The image to the left  shows the radiant heat from the lower atmosphere (about 400 degrees F) ahining through the sulfuric acid clouds, which appear as much as 10 times darker than the bright gaps between clouds.  This cloud layer is at about 170 degrees F, at a pressure about 1/2 Earth's atmospheric pressure.  About 2/3 of the dark hemisphere is visible, centered on longitude 350 West, with bright slsivers of daylit high clouds visible at top and bottom left.  The right image, a modified negative, represents what scientists believe would be the visual appearance of this mid-level cloud deck in daylight, with the clouds reflecting sunlight instead of clocking out infrared from the hot planet and lower atmosphere.  Near the  equator, the clouds appear fluffy and clocky; farther north, they are stretched out into East-West filaments by winds estimated at more than 150 mph, while the poles are capped by thick clouds at this altitude.  The Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo is a combined mapping (imaging) and spectral instrument.  It can sense 408 contiguous wavelengths from 0.7 microns (deep red) to 5.2 microns, and can construct a map or image by mechanical scanning.  It can spectroscopic-ally analyze atmospheres and surfaces and construct thermal and chemical maps. ARC-1990-A91-2001

Range : 60,000 miles These images are two versions of a near-infrafed...

Range : 60,000 miles These images are two versions of a near-infrafed map of lower-level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Galileo spacecraft.The ... More

Range :  50,000 miles This multispectral map of Australia, and surrounding seas was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft's Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer shortly after closest approach.  The image shows various ocean, land and atmospheric cloud features as they appear in three of the 408 infrared colors or wavelengths sensed by the instrument.  The wavelength of 0.873 micron, represented as blue in the photo, shows regions of enhanced liquid water absorption, i.e. the Pacific and Indian oceans.  The 0.984-micron band, represented as red, shows areas of enhanced ground reflection as on the Australian continent.  This wavelength is also s ensitive to the reflectivity of relatively thick clouds.  The 0.939-micron wavelength, shown as green, is a strong water-vapor-absorbing band, and is used to accentuate clouds lying above the strongly absorbing lower atmosphere.  When mixed with the red indicator of cloud reflection, the green produces a yellowish hue; this indicates thick clouds.  The distinctive purplish color off the northeast coast marks the unusually shallow waters of the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea.  Here the blue denoting water absorption combines with the red denoting reflection from coral and surface marine organisms to produce thiss unusual color.  The Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo spacecraft is a combines mapping (imaging) and spectral instrument.  It can sense 408 contiguous wavelengths from 0.7 micron (deep red) to 5.2 microns, and can construct a map or image by mechanical scanning.  It can spectroscopically analyze atmospheres and surfaces and construct thermal and chemical maps. ARC-1990-AC91-2010

Range : 50,000 miles This multispectral map of Australia, and surroun...

Range : 50,000 miles This multispectral map of Australia, and surrounding seas was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft's Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer shortly after closest approach. The image shows vario... More

Range :  35,000 miles plus. This color image of the Simpson Desert in Australia was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at aboaut 2:30 pm PST.  The color composite was made from images taken through the red, green and violet filters.  The area shown, about 280 miles wide by about 340 miles north-to-south, is southeast of Alice Springs.  At lower left is Lake Eyre, a salt lake below sea level, subject to seasonal water-level fluctuations; when this image was acquired the lake was nearly dry.  At lower right is the greenish Lake Blanche.  Fields of linear sand dunes stretch north and east of Lake Eyre, shaped by prevailing winds from the south and showing, in different colors, the various sources and/or ages of their sands. ARC-1990-AC91-2009

Range : 35,000 miles plus. This color image of the Simpson Desert in ...

Range : 35,000 miles plus. This color image of the Simpson Desert in Australia was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at aboaut 2:30 pm PST. The color composite was made from images taken through the red, gre... More

Moon taken by Galileo after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist

Moon taken by Galileo after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist

S90-55753 (9 Dec. 1990) --- This color image of the Moon was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 9:25 a.m. (PST) December 9, 1990, at a range of about 350,000 miles. The color composite uses monochrome images ta... More

Western hemisphere of the Moon taken by Galileo spacecraft

Western hemisphere of the Moon taken by Galileo spacecraft

Galileo spacecraft image of the Moon recorded at 9:35 am Pacific Standard Time (PST), 12-09-90, after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist. Western hemisphere of the Moon was taken through a green filter a... More

ref # P-37330 Range :  1.3 million miles This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at about 6:10 am PST.  The color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filters.  South America is near the center of the picture, and the white, sunlit continent of Antarctica is below.  Picturesque weather fronts are visible in the South Atlantic, lower right.  This is the first frame of the Galileo Earth spin movie, a 500-frame time-lapse motion picture showing a 25-hour period of Earth's rotation and atmosphertic dynamics. ARC-1990-AC91-2008

ref # P-37330 Range : 1.3 million miles This color image of the Earth...

ref # P-37330 Range : 1.3 million miles This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at about 6:10 am PST. The color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filte... More

The Earth and Moon - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

The Earth and Moon - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

During its flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view. The Galileo spacecraft took the images in 1992 on its ... More

Galileo view of Moon orbiting the Earth taken from 3.9 million miles

Galileo view of Moon orbiting the Earth taken from 3.9 million miles

Eight days after its encounter with the Earth, the Galileo spacecraft was able to look back and capture this remarkable view of the Moon in orbit about the Earth, taken from a distance of about 6.2 million kilo... More

This image is the first full picture showing both asteroid 243 Ida and its newly discovered moon to be transmitted to Earth from NASA's Galileo spacecraft--the first conclusive evidence that natural satellites of asteroids exist.  Ida is the large object to the left, about 56 kilometers (35 miles long).  Ida's natural satellite is the small object to the right.  This portrait was taken by Galileo's charge-coupled device (CCD) camera on August 28, 1993, about 14 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to the asteriod, from a range of 10,870 kilometers (6,755 miles).  Ida is a heavily cratered, irregularly shaped asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter-- the 243rd asteroid to be discovered since the first one was found at the beginning of the 19th century.  It is a member of a group of asteroids called the Koronis family.  The small satellite, which is about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) across in this view, has yet to be given a name by astronomers.  It has been provisionally designated '1993 (243) 1' by the International Astronomical Union.  (The numbers denote the year the picture was taken, the asteroid number and the fact that it is the first moon of Ida to be found.)  ALthough the satellite appears to be 'next' to Ida it is actually slightly in the foreground, closer to the spacecraft than Ida.  Combining this image with data from Galileo's near-infrared mapping spectrometer, the science team estimates that the object is about 100 kilometers (60 miles) away from the center of Ida.  This image is one of a six-frame series taken through different color filters, this one in green.  The spatial resolution in this image is about 100 meters (330 feet) per pixel.  The Galileo spacecraft flew past Ida en route to its final destination, Jupiter, where it will go into orbit in December 1995.  The Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the galileo Project for NASA's Office of Space Science. (JPL ref. No. P-43731) ARC-1994-A91-2018

This image is the first full picture showing both asteroid 243 Ida and...

This image is the first full picture showing both asteroid 243 Ida and its newly discovered moon to be transmitted to Earth from NASA's Galileo spacecraft--the first conclusive evidence that natural satellites ... More

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter is shown from several perspectives. IMAGE A is shown from the perspective of Earth based observers. IMAGE B shows the perspective from Galileo spacecraft which can observe the impact point directly.  IMAGE C is shown from the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which may observe the event from its unique position at the outer reaches of the solar system. IMAGE D depicts a generic view from Jupiter's south pole. For visual appeal, most of the large cometary fragments are shown close to one another in this image. At the time of Jupiter impact, the fragments will be separated from one another by serveral times the distances shown. This image was created by D.A. Seal of JPL's Mission Design Section using orbital computations provIded by P.W. Chodas and D.K. Yeomans of JPL's Navigation Section. ARC-1994-AC94-0353-2

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy ...

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter is shown from several perspectives. IMAGE A is shown from the perspective of Earth based observers. IMAGE B shows the pe... More

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter is shown from several perspectives. IMAGE B shows the perspective from Galileo spacecraft which can observe the impact point directly. For visual appeal, most of the large cometary fragments are shown close to one another in this image. At the time of Jupiter impact, the fragments will be separated from one another by serveral times the distances shown. This image was created by D.A. Seal of JPL's Mission Design Section using orbital computations provIded by P.W. Chodas and D.K. Yeomans of JPL's Navigation Section. ARC-1994-AC94-0353-2B

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy ...

Photo Artwork composite by JPL This depiction of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter is shown from several perspectives. IMAGE B shows the perspective from Galileo spacecraft which can observe the impact p... More

Natural color view of Ganymede. NASA public domain image colelction.

Natural color view of Ganymede. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description Natural color view of Ganymede from the Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the satellite. North is to the top of the picture and the sun illuminates the surface from the right. The d... More

Asteroid Ida and Its Moon. NASA public domain image colelction.

Asteroid Ida and Its Moon. NASA public domain image colelction.

This is the first full picture showing both asteroid 243 Ida and its newly discovered moon to be transmitted to Earth from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Galileo spacecraft--the fi... More

Global View of Earth in the Near-Infrared

Global View of Earth in the Near-Infrared

This near-infrared photograph of the Earth was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 6:07 a.m. PST on Dec. 11, 1990, at a range of about 1.32 million miles. South America is prominent near the center. http://phot... More

Natural and False Color Views of Europa

Natural and False Color Views of Europa

This image, taken on September 7, 1996 by NASA Galileo orbiter, shows two views of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter ice-covered satellite, Europa. The left image shows the approximate natural color appearance... More

A Chain of Impact Craters on Callisto

A Chain of Impact Craters on Callisto

A portion of a chain of impact craters on Jupiter's moon Callisto is seen in this image taken by the Galileo spacecraft on November 4, 1996. This crater chain on Callisto is believed to result from the impact o... More

Callisto Valhalla Impact Structure - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

Callisto Valhalla Impact Structure - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

A portion of the central zone of the large impact structure Valhalla on Jupiter's moon Callisto was imaged by the Galileo spacecraft on November 4, 1996. The area shown here is centered at 16 degrees north, 55 ... More

Asgard Impact Structure on Callisto

Asgard Impact Structure on Callisto

This four-frame mosaic shows the ancient impact structure Asgard on Jupiter's moon Callisto. This image is centered at 30 degrees north, 142 degrees west. The Asgard structure is approximately 1700 km across (1... More

Ridges on Europa, NASA / JPL Europa Image

Ridges on Europa, NASA / JPL Europa Image

This view of Jupiter's moon Europa shows a portion of the surface that has been highly disrupted by fractures and ridges. This picture covers an area about 238 kilometers (150 miles) wide by 225 kilometers (140... More

NIMS: Hotspots on Io During G2. NASA public domain image colelction.

NIMS: Hotspots on Io During G2. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo spacecraft imaged Io at high spectral resolution at a range of 439,000 km (275,000 miles) during the G2 encounter on 7 September 1996. This image sho... More

Jupiter Multi-level Clouds - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

Jupiter Multi-level Clouds - NASA/JPL Galileo Program Images

Clouds and hazes at various altitudes within the dynamic Jovian atmosphere are revealed by multi-color imaging taken during the second orbit G2 on September 5, 1996 by Galileo spacecraft. NASA/JPL

NIMS Observes Increased Activity at Loki Patera, Io

NIMS Observes Increased Activity at Loki Patera, Io

On Feb. 21, 1997, the Galileo spacecraft observed Io in daylight from a range of approximately 703,000 km 440,000 miles. Loki Patera, historically the most active and persistent hot spot on Io, is located on th... More

A close up of a planet with a black background. Jupiter moon europa icy.

A close up of a planet with a black background. Jupiter moon europa ic...

This artist's concept shows a close - up of the planet's surface / The moon is seen as it is seen by spacecraft / Public domain space exploration photo.

A view of the earth and moon from space. Earth space moon, science technology.

A view of the earth and moon from space. Earth space moon, science tec...

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