Galileo

(proper noun)

Galileo was an unmanned NASA spacecraft which studied the planet Jupiter and its moons.

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Examples of Galileo in the following topics:

  • Europa's Possible Ocean

    • Europa, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, is one of Jupiter's four moons (called the Galilean moons) .
    • Geologists have analyzed images taken from the Voyager and Galileo expeditions and have come up with two possible models for the surface of this moon: the thick-ice model and the thin-ice model.