A probe that penetrated Jupiter’s atmosphere
The Hindu
On July 13, 1995, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft released the atmospheric entry probe that it carried. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about this mission with particular emphasis on the probe, which hit Jupiter’s atmosphere in December 1995.
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