Release of Galileo Images During GEM

On December 7, 1997, the Galileo spacecraft completed its two-year "Prime Mission" study at Jupiter. At that point, we entered a new phase, the "Galileo Europa Mission" (GEM), a tightly focussed, low-cost continuation of Galileo's exploration of the Jovian system, scheduled to last through the end of 1999.

To accomodate the associated cost-reduction needed to conduct the GEM mission, the daily release of images on the Galileo Home Page that was conducted during Galileo's primary mission in 1996-1997, is being replaced with periodic releases of related collections of images and data that put the data into the bigger picture of what we are learning at Jupiter, as the scientific analysis continues. The timing of the releases will be lead by our scientific discoveries. We will augment these releases with weekly educational, public event, and mission status releases and stories; we'll have many interesting activities coming during this exciting phase of the mission. The first closeup images of Europa taken during the Europa 12 encounter will be released in March 1998

The full data sets from the previous orbits are being released approximately one year after the data has been received on Earth. See this schedule for the public release dates.

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