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ch. 1. The long journey to Jupiter -- December 7, 1995 : rendez-vous with a giant -- The king of planets has always beckoned -- The first pioneers -- The voyagers' "grand tour" -- From an idea to a billion-dollar spacecraft -- ch. 2. Discoveries under way -- The trip to Venus -- The mission begins -- "Cruising" to Venus and back -- Learning about Earth's sister planet -- Return to Earth -- Is there life on Earth? -- The darkest hour -- Gaspra : the first encounter with an asteroid -- Scenarios for living without the main antenna -- Off to Jupiter -- The second return to Earth -- The second asteroid : ida and its little moon -- Front-row seats for the comet crash -- ch. 3. Arrival and the atmospheric probe -- Four hundred years of Jupiter research -- Finally there : the task of the atmospheric probe -- Arrival day -- The hour of truth -- Analysis -- The cruise begins -- ch. 4. Looping from moon to moon -- Ganymede : a ball of ice with furrows and a magnetic field -- Deciphering Jupiter's colorful clouds -- An ocean under Europa's icy crust -- Beyond the visible : Jupiter's powerful magnetosphere -- Io the miracle moon : endless volcanic activity -- Even more : a ring, mini-moons, and dust streams -- Callisto, the outsider -- Jupiter and the four Galilean moons -- A planetary system in miniature -- ch. 5. What the future holds in store -- Galileo flies on -- Another mission extension: and another one -- Beyond Galileo : keeping our sights on Europa -- The future has begun : Cassini on the way to Saturn. |
