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• catalog abstract ""Jupiter is one of the brightest planets in our night sky and by far the largest in the Solar System. What the Romans called the Father of the Sky is huge - its diameter is more than ten times, Earth's and its mass is well over twice the total of all the rest of the planets in the Solar System. Yet in spite of its staggering size, its position relatively close to us, and its prominent place in our myths and imagination, Jupiter has remained the of the most enigmatic of out planetary neighbors. Does this gas giant have a solid surface? What drives its Great Red Spot - a huge swirling storm hundreds of years old and tens of thousands of miles across? Was there ever a possibility of microbial life on its watery moon Europa? What are we to make of the active volcanoes on the moon Io? And what is the nature of Jupiter's extraordinary magnetosphere?" "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 tradition bombardment - and it is still flying, still sending us extraordinary treasures of data from Jupiter and its moons."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11533561.
• catalog coverage "Jupiter (Planet) Exploration.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Jupiter is one of the brightest planets in our night sky and by far the largest in the Solar System. What the Romans called the Father of the Sky is huge - its diameter is more than ten times, Earth's and its mass is well over twice the total of all the rest of the planets in the Solar System. Yet in spite of its staggering size, its position relatively close to us, and its prominent place in our myths and imagination, Jupiter has remained the of the most enigmatic of out planetary neighbors. Does this gas giant have a solid surface? What drives its Great Red Spot - a huge swirling storm hundreds of years old and tens of thousands of miles across? Was there ever a possibility of microbial life on its watery moon Europa? What are we to make of the active volcanoes on the moon Io? And what is the nature of Jupiter's extraordinary magnetosphere?" "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 tradition bombardment - and it is still flying, still sending us extraordinary treasures of data from Jupiter and its moons."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-301) and index.".
• catalog description "ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 4. Looping from moon to moon -- Ganymede : a ball of ice with furrows and a magnetic field -- Deciphering Jupiter's colorful 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 -- ch. 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.".
• catalog extent "xv, 317 p., 32 p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0387987649 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng ger".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Copernicus,".
• catalog spatial "Jupiter (Planet) Exploration.".
• catalog subject "629.43/545 21".
• catalog subject "Galileo Project.".
• catalog subject "QB661 .F57 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 4. Looping from moon to moon -- Ganymede : a ball of ice with furrows and a magnetic field -- Deciphering Jupiter's colorful 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 -- ch. 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.".
• catalog title "Mission Jupiter : the spectacular journey of the Galileo spacecraft / Daniel Fischer.".
• catalog type "text".