Jan 22 1996
From The Space Library
NASA released its analysis of the data from the Galileo probe mission to Jupiter, information that had caused scientists to rethink their theories about Jupiter's formation. The data suggested that Jupiter does not have the three-tiered cloud structure scientists had anticipated, and that the amount of helium present on Jupiter is half of scientists' projections. NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science Wesley T. Huntress Jr. touted the data collected as beyond NASA's highest expectations. The Galileo probe had been one of NASA's most challenging missions undertaken to obtain scientific data. According to NASA, the probe had made the most difficult planetary atmospheric entry ever attempted, surviving entry speeds of more than 100,000 miles (160,000 kilometers) per hour and temperatures twice as hot as the surface of the Sun.
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