JPL's Galileo Spacecraft Will Shoot an Interplanetary "Bulls's Eye"

Abstract

JPL's Galileo spacecraft, with a December 1995 rendezvous with Jupiter, shot an interplanetary "bull's eye" when it released its probe to conduct history's first sampling of Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe will slam into Jupiter's hydrogen-helium atmosphere at 100,000 mph as the spacecraft flies overhead and receives and records the probe's data on the structure and composition of the atmosphere.