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...habitude" by Jacques Revaux and Claude François "Skokian" (The Four Lads) from the Zulu song by August Msarurgwa "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra) from the German song by Bert Kaempfert "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Dusty Springfield) from the Italian song "Io Che Non Vivo" by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini...
...Galileo spacecraft, sent out by NASA on October 18, 1989 to explore Jupiter and its surrounding moons, has detected proof of organic compounds on two of Jupiter's moons--Callisto and Ganymede. It is likely to find it on Jupiter's other two large moons--Europa and Io...
Ordinarily, a body the size of Io should have cooled off long ago, making volcanoes impossible. But for every pass the moon makes around Jupiter, it makes several passes by its large, slower-orbiting sister moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Every time Io does that, the gravitational tug of these nearby satellites gives it a twang. On Earth, the gravity of just one moon is sufficient to cause the oceans to rise and fall in great crashing tides. On Io, the gravitational influence of three nearby moons is enough to distort the shape of the world itself, causing...
Jupiter's Io and Neptune's Triton could also prove surprising. Though Io appears largely dehydrated, planetologists don't rule out the possibility of subsurface water, particularly since they think that ordinary steam might provide some of the propulsive muscle behind the moon's volcanoes. Triton presents a greater organic hurdle. At -391[degrees]F, the moon is the coldest known object in the solar system. Nevertheless, it appears heavy with subsurface ice, which seems to have got warm enough, in the past at least, to flow over the landscape in a lava-like slurry. More tantalizing, dark streaks near...
...hundreds of times closer than those achieved by Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1979--it will shoot pictures and, with remote sensing instruments, analyze the chemical composition of the moons. In the course of its many orbits, Galileo will also investigate Jupiter's fourth major moon, the volcanically active Io, but only at a safe distance; the moon lies within an intense radiation belt that could endanger the spacecraft's electronics systems...