New Ganymede Results From Galileo To Be Presented
Douglas Isbell Headquarters, Washington, DC December 10, 1996 (Phone: 202/358-1753) Sender: owner-press-release Precedence: bulk Mary Beth Murrill Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (Phone: 818/354-5011) NOTE TO EDITORS: N96-79
The briefing will include the debut of spacecraft data that has been translated into an audio recording to allow scientists to hear the particle activity that Galileo's instruments measured during two close flybys of Ganymede earlier this year. Scientists also will discuss findings to be published in the scientific journal Nature this week regarding Ganymede's interior and the magnetic environment that surrounds the large, icy moon.
New images taken by the spacecraft, in addition to new animation illustrating Galileo's recent discoveries, will be shown.
Galileo scientists will then describe plans to study Europa, the Jovian moon that may have a liquid ocean beneath its ice crust, during the spacecraft close pass of the moon on Dec. 19 at 1:53 a.m. EST (Dec. 18 at 10:53 p.m. PST.) The flyby will occur at an altitude of just 433 miles.
NASA Television is available through the Spacenet 2 satellite on transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees West longitude, frequency 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier 6.8 MHz, horizontal polarization. Two-way question and answer capability will be available to reporters at participating NASA centers.
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