Magnetosphere of Ganymede Animation
NOTE: This Quicktime animation is made available in order to share with the public the excitement of new discoveries being made via the NASA/JPL Galileo spacecraft. Galileo scientists are in the process of calibrating and validating this data. The full digital image necessary for scientific analysis will be released within one year of receipt of this orbit's last data.
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Magnetic field lines that are connected to Jupiter at both ends are cyan. Those with one end connected to Jupiter and the other to Ganymede are magenta and closed Field lines connected to Ganymede at both ends are yellow. The red line is the trajectory of Galileo on its first flyby. The scale on the left is in Ganymede radii.
Animation courtesy of the Galileo Magnetometer Science Team.
Launched in October 1989, Galileo entered orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995. The spacecraft's mission is to conduct detailed studies of the giant planet, its largest moons and the Jovian magnetic environment. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.
This image and other images and data received from Galileo are posted on the World Wide Web, on the Galileo mission home page at URL http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo.