Mission Name GALILEO GALILEO Mission Patch LASP Instruments UV Spectrometer EUV Experiment Principal Investigator: Charles Hord Destination Jupiter Launch Date October 18th, 1989 Launch Location Kennedy Space Center Launch Vehicle Shuttle Atlantis STS-34 Mission Duration 14 years Mission Description/ LASP involvement   LASP Divisions Involved Science LASP Mission Web Page http://lasp.colorado.edu/galileo/ Official Mission Web Page http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/

Galileo was sent to observe the Jovian system. Over a span of 34 orbits, the spacecraft observed Jupiter and the 4 Galilean moons. There were numerous discoveries during the mission with some of the highlights being:

Discoveries about storms on Jupiter Temperature and composition measurements of volcanoes on Io Discovery of the likely subsurface ocean on Europa Magnetic field of Ganymede Possible subsurface ocean on Callisto

The mission was ended with the spacecraft being crashed into Jupiter to take some final measurements of the Jovian atmosphere as well as to keep the satellite from accidentally crashing into Europa at some future date.

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