How many images are currently planned? How many would have been planned if the HGA had opened?
Please see the ‘Galileo’s Antennas’ section; in particular, the section titled Science Saved and Science Lost may be helpful. When can we expect to see the first images from the spacecraft? Since we won’t be returning images from the Io flyby on December 7, 1995, initial plans for release of the first images have changed. Now, Galileo’s first close flyby images will be from the first flyby of Ganymede in early July of 1996. We currently expect that those first images will be released to the public in early July. How many images were expected for the G1 orbit? Is this typical for all of the other orbits? The Solid State Imaging camera alone will take about 60 color and black and white images during the G1 encounter, capturing images of Jupiter, Io, Ganymede, and Europa. The total number of shutterings, counting each imaging filter, is about 120. The other imaging instruments (Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, Photopolarimeter, and Ultraviolet Spectrometer) capture data in a different
