Word: galileo
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...study the planet Jupiter, the Galileo probe passed within 5,300 km (3,300 miles) of the asteroid 951 Gaspra, and scientists instructed it to take the first closeup ever of such an object. The irregular shape suggests that Gaspra was chipped from a larger body in a mammoth collision. (See related story on page...
...grown noticeably bigger in size. I have punched the air for hours and have been very sore afterwards, but I haven't grown physically. Mainly because of one little problem (forget for a moment that I'm flabby and uncoordinated and lazy and have such thin bones that under Galileo's principle of size and shape, which I learned in Stephen Jay Gould's core class, I simply can't get that huge): I can only box once a week. With tutorials, public service, The Crimson, social action and the like going on a resume, who has afternoons free...
While NASA studied Magellan's images, another space explorer made history last week. Moving out beyond Mars, Galileo became the first spacecraft to have a close encounter with an asteroid. But pictures of the mysterious planetary fragment, called Gaspra, are unavailable because Galileo's main antenna for sending out images is frozen in the wrong position. Not until 1992, when Galileo swings back by Earth, can smaller antennas on the craft successfully transmit the missing pictures. The frustrating delay makes scientists all the more grateful for Magellan's reliable -- and revealing -- signals from Venus...
...space, the inexcusable myopia of the $1.5 billion Hubble telescope, the balky antenna that endangers the $1.3 billion Galileo mission to Jupiter, and even the Challenger disaster and the shuttle's subsequent troubles gave space science a bad name -- notwithstanding the fact that the failures resulted not from scientific errors but largely from managerial blunders and budgetary constraints...