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To: NASA/Office of Space Science NASA and JPL recently announced that the Galileo mission has been extended one final time. In this mission, the Galileo spacecraft will flyby the Jovian moons Callisto, Io (3 times), and Amalthea before crashing into Jupiter in September 2003. In 2001, remote sensing is planned. This includes the flyby of Callisto and two of the flybys of Io. However, NASA has refused to allow remote sensing in what many believe to be the most important flyby of Io for remote sensing, I33 (flyby of Io in the 33rd Orbit). In this flyby, Galileo will fly over the projovian hemisphere of Io, an area imaged best by Voyager. Voyager found many interesting features on this hemisphere. Some of these features, however, are still mysterious. Galileo has not imaged this hemisphere very well during its mission and this flyby would allow us the best imaging of this hemisphere. The amount of money needed to fund remote sensing in this orbit would only be .01% of the total NASA budget, or $1,500,000. We believe that remote sensing in I33 is important for understanding features seen by Voyager, at low resolution by Galileo, and of features on the other hemisphere that was well seen by Galileo. We believe that NASA should reverse its decision on remote sensing in I33. Read a letter describing the petition in full. Website created by Jason Perry on Saturday, March 31, 2001 10:33 PM CST. Last Updated May 8, 2001 4:48 PM .
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