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Galileo
The space probe Galileo was sent to explore the planet Jupiter. It arrived
in 1995. Its 11 instruments were designed to get more detailed information than could be provided
by the earlier Pioneer
and Voyager spacecraft. Galileo also carried a probe designed to enter Jupiter’s atmosphere, but it was destroyed as it descended.
 The flight paths of the Galileo spacecraft using the Sun as a slingshot.
Launch from Earth on October 18, 1989
Sun
Orbit of Earth
Orbit of Venus
Orbit of Jupiter
Meets with Jupiter on December 7, 1995
This probe was launched in 1997 (see page 21) and arrived in orbit on July 1, 200. The Cassini orbiter is programmed to orbit Saturn and its moons for
 years, and the Huygens probe will descend into the atmosphere of Titan and land on its surface.
 An artist’s rendering of the Cassini-Huygens probe journeying through space.
Flyby of Gaspra asteroid
Cassini-Huygens
Flyby of Ida asteroid
 The Cassini-Huygens probe under test.
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