Galileo Images

Ganymede Images. Optical navigation images of Ganymede are now available. High resolution images of Ganymede will be available in July 1996.
Educator's Slide Set Volume 1. Twenty slides showing Galileo's launch, the most spectacular images from flybys of the Earth, Moon, Venus, Asteroids Gaspra and Ida and the Shoemaker-Levy/9 impacts, accompanied by descriptions, suggestions on educational activities, and background material not found anywhere else.
Dramatic views of the asteroids Gaspra and Ida (and Ida's moon, Dactyl).
See the latest pictures from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter.
Take a look at the Earth-Moon flyby images.
Galileo Galilei's Finger. The middle finger of Galileo's right hand is on display in a museum in Italy. No kidding!
Also, Galileo Galilei's vertebra is on display in a University in Italy.

Galileo Imaging Camera Outreach

Galileo Jupiter Approach Images. A sequence of 121 images of Galileo approaching Jupiter during Jupiter orbital insertion on December 7, 1995.
Galileo Jupiter Approach Animations. Five animations covering the Jupiter orbit insertion events on December 7, 1995.

MPEG Animation (3.6MB) showing Jupiter approach, probe release, coast to Jupiter arrival, entry, parachute deployment. A killer animation!
MPEG (325K) or Quicktime (771K) animation showing the probe heating up as it plows through Jupiter's atmosphere.
MPEG (331K) or Quicktime (724K) animation showing the probe's parachute deployment.
Quicktime Animation (496K) of the Probe's lower descent on its main parachute.
Quicktime Animation (2.0MB) of the Probe's upper descent on its main parachute. Note the lightning bolts!