St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: December 7, 2021

St. Louis MO

08 December, 2021

9:31 AM

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Press release from St. Louis Science Center: December 07, 2021 Today 1995, the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter and entered orbit after 6 years of travel including a flyby of Venus and two asteroids, Gaspra and Ida. Galileo spent a further 8 years examining Jupiter and its moons Io and Europa. In 1994, the Galileo orbiter was present to watch the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crash into Jupiter. This press release was produced by St. Louis Science Center. The views expressed here are the author's own.