The Galileo Resource Guide

Many resources related to the Galileo mission are available from several different sources. The following information outlines what those resources are and how you can obtain them.

Video | Satellite broadcasts | On-Line Resources | Pictures and Slide Sets

Contacts

Galileo and Jupiter Related Videos

The following videotapes feature segments relating to Galileo and/or Jupiter:

The Best of JPL
Includes "Galileo: Earth/Moon Encounter 2" and "Galileo: The Jovian Laboratory"
Science Education from Space
Includes "Third Step to Jupiter"
Apollo Collection
Shuttle Collection
Solar System Visualization
Project Mathematics (Tapes 1 & 2)

How to obtain videos: These videos are available for free through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Teaching Resource Center in exchange for a new, quality-brand VHS cassette still in shrink-wrap.

JPL Teacher Resource Center
4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 180-109
Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: (909) 397-4420
FAX: (909) 397-4470

Satellite: NASA TV

If you have a satellite dish, you can watch Galileo press conferences on NASA TV, which is on Spacenet 2, transponder 5 (channel 9), 69 degrees West longitude. Transponder frequency is 3880 Mhz, polarization is horizontal.

On-line Resources

The following resources are accessible through the World-Wide Web on the Internet:

The Galileo Home Page: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
The Galileo Home Page features up-to-date mission information (including new images, press releases, and a "This Week on Galileo" section), educational products, and The Galileo Messenger (the official newsletter of the Galileo Project).
Online From Jupiter: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/jupiter.html
Features scientists and engineers describing through journal entries on the Internet what it is like to fly a space mission, and an archive of answers to questions posed from students and teachers. "Online" also has a number of curriculum activities for classroom use. (The next live session will be from mid-February through the end of March.)
The Galileo Probe Home Page: http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/galileo-probe/
The Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 Home Page: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
WebChats
Galileo scientists and engineers answer questions in real time on the World-Wide Web. Check http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/chat/ for the next scheduled WebChat!

Pictures and Slide Sets

Galileo Educator Slide Set Vol. 1
Consists of 20 slides showing the spacecraft and images from Galileo's flybys of Venus, Earth, asteroids Gaspra and Ida, and the Shoemaker-Levy/9 comet collision with Jupiter. Extended captions are also available for this set.
Galileo Educator Slide Set Vol. 2
Highlights from the first three orbits. Images include views of the Great Red Spot and the four Galilean satellites. Available in early March.
Galileo Speaker Slide Set
A more extensive set of 40 slides with short captions.
Pictures from the Spacecraft Galileo images will continue to show up on the Galileo Home Page throughout the mission. Hard copies and CD-ROM images are also available.

How to obtain slide sets: The Galileo Educator Slide Set is available through the various NASA Teacher Resource Centers or through NASA-CORE (Central Operation of Resources for Educators) for a small charge. (See below for details on CORE.)

Slide sets can also be obtained from the following vendor:

Finley Holiday Film Corporation
12607 E. Philadelphia St., PO BOX 619, Whittier, CA 90601
(310) 945-3325

How to obtain press-release photographs: Electronic versions are available on the Galileo WWW Page for free. Hard copies of certain images can be purchased from:

Newell Color Lab
221 N. Westmoreland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064
(213) 380-2980, (213) 739-6984 fax

Images are also available on CD-ROM from the National Space Science Data Center. Please contact the JPL Public Information Office at (818) 354-5011 for more information.

Contacts:

For NASA videos, posters, and other educational materials:

JPL Teacher Resource Center
4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 180-109
Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: (909) 397-4420
FAX: (909) 397-4470

For Galileo mission overview and selected educational materials:

Project Galileo Outreach Team
4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 264-419
Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-6710

For NASA audiovisual educational materials:

NASA-CORE (Central Operation of Resources for Educators)
Lorain County JVS
15181 Route 58 South
Oberlin, OH 44074
(216) 774-1051

As always, we appreciate feedback and comments (email askgalileo@gllsvc.jpl.nasa.gov), both positive and negative (especially if you can make constructive suggestions)!

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