Abstract
On December 7, 1995, the Galileo spacecraft will begin observations
of the Jovian system with orbit insertion and a satellite tour of
10 orbits. The Galilean satellites will be observed with four remote
sensing instruments spanning the ultraviolet, visible, near infrared,
and thermal infrared regions of the spectrum. The Galileo near-infrared
mapping spectrometer will observe the satellites in the wavelength
range 0.7-5.2 mu m, a region particularly well suited for analyzing
volatile components. Planned observations include mapping most available
longitudes at about 100-km resolution per pixel at full wavelength
resolution, together with observing limited regions at high spatial
resolution. The opportunity to affect the choice and design of observations
for the Galileo tour ex-tends until June 1996.
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