New Galileo Images to be Featured at Next Galileo Science Update

Douglas Isbell
Headquarters, Washington, DC                   August 6, 1996
(Phone:  202/358-1753)

Mary Beth Murrill
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 
(Phone:  818/354-5011)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N96-52

IMAGES OF EUROPA, JUPITER'S GREAT RED SPOT AND VOLCANOES ON IO TO BE FEATURED IN NEXT GALILEO SCIENCE UPDATE

Remarkable new findings from NASA's Galileo spacecraft about Jupiter's frozen moon Europa, the planet's Great Red Spot, and giant sulfur volcanoes on the moon Io will be revealed at a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, August 8, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.

The briefing will be carried live on NASA Television and will feature discussion of the new mission results by members of the Galileo science team. Several new color and black-and-white images and a video clip highlighting Galileo imagery of Europa also will be released.

Highlights of the briefing will include new scientific insights into:

dramatic evidence of geologic activity that has has caused melting and reshaping of the surface of Europa, a cracked, frozen world largely made of water ice;
Jupiter's swirling Great Red Spot -- which is actually a gigantic hurricane as big across as three Earths -- with new details of its structure revealed by Galileo's sensitive camera;
and, the moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, which is being constantly resurfaced with new lava flows.

NASA Television is broadcast on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, C-Band, located at 69 degrees West longitude, frequency 3880 Mhz, audio subcarrier 6.8 Mhz, horizontal polarization. Two-way question and answer capability will be offered from participating NASA centers.

Images and information on the mission will be available electronically through the Galileo Internet home page at URL:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo

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