Today on Galileo - September 5, 1996
Galileo's camera continues taking selected images of a crescent Io to look for plumes against the dark sky, as Galileo gets closer to Jupiter. The spacecraft is now only 25 Jupiter radius distances from the giant planet, and it is 700 million km from Earth. This morning, the NIMS instrument completes its global map of Jupiter, looking at 5 infrared "colors" and the UVS instrument observes Europa again to look at its surface properties. Throughout the day, the Fields and Particles continue their collection of magnetospheric data. Of particular interest to these intruments, in the late morning, Galileo passes through Callisto's L-shell. Tomorrow, the main activities start for closest approach to Ganymede (which is on Friday).