Galileo operated from 1989-2003 and sent back valuable information about Jupiter and its moons before being destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere. We participate in all phases of planetary investigations, from defining and developing specialized instrumentation to analyzing, interpreting, distributing, and archiving data collected during flight missions. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of … Galileo was an American uncrewed spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. You probably know that a year is 365 days here on Earth. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe.It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989 by Space Shuttle Atlantis. In July of 2015, a spacecraft named New Horizons arrived at Pluto after a long journey. NASA Solar System Exploration Today at 9:00 AM On this date in 2006, our Cassini spacecraft observed the dark side ... of Saturn’s rings glowing with scattered light, along with the moon Dione presenting as an exquisitely thin crescent. This site contains details on the Galileo spacecraft mission to Jupiter. Information on the mission,… solarsystem.nasa.gov Rivers of Cloud | NASA Solar System Exploration Rippling with detail, the southern hemisphere of Saturn comes to life in this view from the Cassini spacecraft. Find out more about Pluto. The Planetary Environments Laboratory studies the chemistry and astrobiology of the atmospheres and surfaces of planetary bodies. It took amazing pictures of this dwarf planet and will continue to study other objects in the Kuiper Belt from 2018 to 2022. Long, flowing streamers and bands of great contrast soften toward the pole, where a great hurricane-like storm resides. The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This newly reprocessed image, along with two others along the same longitude (see PIA23871 and PIA23872), were taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on Sept. 26, 1998, and reveal details of diverse surface features on Europa. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of …