What are the three dots (glitches?) in the Saturn picture?
ANSWER Galileo was a major mission that went to Jupiter alone, arriving in 1995. It studied both the planet itself and its major moons. We will treat these in detail in the next two pages As a preview, JPL has a webcast from its von Karman Series that looks to the Galileo mission in detail. Access it through the JPL Video Site, then the pathway Subject–>Von Karman Series 2003 –> Format –>Webcast –> Search to bring up the list that includes “Galileo’s Odyssey to the Worlds of Jupiter”, September 18, 2003. To start it, once found, click on the blue RealVideo link. We will cite another lecture concerned with the Cassini-Huygens mission on the first Saturn page. The Giant planets are just that: vastly larger, near-spherical bodies, dominated by atmospheres that comprise the bulk of their volumes. Orbiting at 5.2 A.U., Jupiter is the largest, with an equatorial diameter of 142,984 km (88,850 mi, measured from the center to an outer level, where we estimate the atmospheric pressure is 1.
