Galileo images will show up on the Galileo Home Page throughout the mission. If you're interested in hard copies, the following vendors make JPL/NASA photographic and video press-release products available to the general public.
CD-ROM images from Galileo are available from the National Space Science Data Center
. Press-released videotapes (for example, a time lapse movie of the earth rotating) are also available; please contact the JPL Public Information Office for further information.
I'm a teacher who needs pictures for my classroom.
The Teaching Resource Center can be of help.
How can I watch Galileo press conferences?
If you have a satellite dish, you can find NASA TV on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees West,. Transponder frequency is 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz, polarization is horizontal.
Where can I get pictures of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 impacting Jupiter?
Galileo's pictures of the impact are available online. Also, JPL has a SL-9 homepage . There are literally hundreds of downloadable images available from this site.
When can I see images from the Probe's plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere?
Most people are surprised to learn that the Probe doesn't have a camera at all (so there aren't going to be any images from the Probe at all). Keep in mind that the Probe sends data to the Orbiter at 128 bits per second per channel, and that the Probe mission only lasts 75 minutes at most. A single picture from the Solid State Imaging camera on the Orbiter can easily run around 160 kilobytes, so there wouldn't have been time to send up very many pictures from the Probe before the end of its mission.
A partial "quick look" set of the Probe data will be sent back to Earth December 10-13 (investigators will be announcing their preliminary results at a December 19 press conference). A full playback of the entire Probe data set will start in January 1996, following the end of the solar conjunction period (where the Sun lies almost directly between the Earth and Jupiter), and end in March.
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