Today on Galileo - May 9, 1997
As the encounter period starts to wind down today, the flight team will transmit the cruise period set of commands to the spacecraft. These commands will begin to execute Sunday morning.
The morning starts with the completion of the UVS (Ultraviolet Spectrometer) Jupiter aurora observations that were initiated yesterday evening. Also, PPR (Photopolarimeter Radiometer) performs another regional observation of Jupiter's atmosphere this morning. Throughout the day, NIMS (Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer) joins PPR in performing a few more observations of Jupiter's south pole region.
PPR continues its polarimetry campaign by observing Io, Callisto and Europa. Completing today's set of observations, the UVS performs a final remote Io torus observation.