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Galileo - What's New - October 1996

October 31, 1996

• The log sessions to yesterday's WebChat are now available.

October 30, 1996

• Galileo Status Report (October 30, 1996)
  Playback of Ganymede 2 data completed, final preparations for Callisto encounter continue, OPNAV images of Callisto obtained.
• NIMS reveals features of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!

October 28, 1996

• New NIMS Surface Map of Ganymede
• Annoucing the next Galileo Educators' Workshop!
• The following animation is now available showing the overhead view of the Galileo flyby of Callisto on November 4, 1996:
  • MPEG - 762K , 640x480 resolution
  • MPEG - 399K, 320x200 resolution
  • Quicktime - 1.5 MB, 640x480 resolution
  • Quicktime - 809K, 320x200 resolution

October 25, 1996

• Hubble Finds Thin Oxygen Atmosphere on Ganymede (October 23, 1996).
• There will be a Galileo Lecture given by four members of the Galileo team in Tuscon, Arizona on October 26. This event is sponsored by the Planetary Society.

October 24, 1996

• The Galileo Countdown page has been updated for the upcoming Callisto flyby.

October 23, 1996

• Galileo Finds High-Altitude Ionosphere at Io!
• Galileo Status Report (October 18, 1996)
  Data download continues, OPNAV images of Callisto failed, testing of ground data arraying continues.
• New Image of Probable Frost on Ganymede!
• New Image of Nippur Sulcus Region on Ganymede!
• New Stereo Image of Galileo Regio on Ganymede!
• New Image of Io's Full Disk!
• New Image of Changing Volcanic Activity on Io!

October 22, 1996

• The Ganymede 2 Navigation Flyby Results are now available.

October 21, 1996

• The Callisto Fact Sheet is now available. Galileo will makes its first flyby of Callisto on November 4, 1996.

October 20, 1996

• New Image of Ganymede's Galileo Regio Region!
• New Image of Ganymede's Uruk Sulcus Region!

October 19, 1996

• Five Color Views of Io!
• Features of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

October 18, 1996

• New Color Image of the Minos Linea Region on Europa!
• Volcanic Hot Spots and Auroral Emission on Io!
• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (757 nm Filter)
• New False Color Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (Near-Infrared Filters)
• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (886nm filter)

October 17, 1996

• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• New Hubble Images of Jupiter's Aurora!

October 16, 1996

• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• A link to the American Geophysical Union 1997 Spring Meeting (AGU) has been added to the Galileo Calendar of Events.

October 15, 1996

• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• A link to the Remote Sensing of Volcanoes on Earth and the Planets Conference has been added to the Galileo Calendar of Events.

October 14, 1996

• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!

October 11, 1996

• First Galileo OPNAV Image of Callisto!
• The October issue of the Galileo Messenger is now available!
• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!

October 10, 1996

• New Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• Galileo Status Report (October 9, 1996)
  Half of G2 data played back to Earth, radio receiver operating normally, tape recorder conditioned, testing of DSN array continues.

October 9, 1996

• New PPR Temperature Map of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!

October 8, 1996

• New NIMS Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• A link to the Conference on the Three Galileos: the Man, the Spacecraft, the Telescope has been added to the Galileo Calendar of Events.

October 7, 1996

• New Color Image of Ganymede!
• Check out the Galileo Quick-Look Orbit Facts home page, information on each of the 11 orbits of Galileo's tour around Jupiter.
• A link to the 28th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference has been added to the Galileo Calendar of Events.

October 4, 1996

• Combined 6-image mosaic of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
• New Hubble Image of Jupiter and Io!
• Check out the Galileo Random Page.

October 3, 1996

• New image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• Check out the Galileo Calendar of Events.

October 2, 1996

• New image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• A MPEG version (26K) of the animation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot released last week is now available.
• A new photo of Galileo's Plasma Wave (PWS) instrument has been added.

October 1, 1996

• New image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot!
• Check out the Galileo Web Site Top Ten Home Pages

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