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Word: amalthea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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...instruments. If Pioneer 11's electronic gear survives, it should produce a bonanza of data: 22 closeup color pictures of Jupiter, including the first of its polar regions; new studies of the planet's temperature, radiation levels and magnetic field; and the first measurements of Amalthea, smallest and innermost of Jupiter's 13 known moons.* Space Pioneer. No one is watching Pioneer 11's travels with more interest than another pioneer, Physicist James Van Allen, who scored the first triumph of American space science by discovering the radiation belts around the earth that now bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Man and His Planets | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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