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- Subject: Galileo GIF Images Available
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- GALILEO GIF IMAGES
- December 28, 1992
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-
- Five Galileo images released at last week's press conference are now
- available in GIF format (GIF89a). The images were scanned in from photographs
- and are not the raw data. Caption files accompanying each image are attached
- below, and the caption files are also embedded in the image. Make sure
- you are in binary mode when downloading the images, and in ascii mode when
- downloading the caption files. The Galileo images are available using
- anonymous ftp to:
-
- ftp: ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3)
- user: anonymous
- cd: pub/SPACE/GIF
- files:
- andes.gif - False color mosaic of the Andes Mountains
- andes.txt - caption file
- earthmo2.gif - Color image of the Earth and Moon
- earthmo2.txt - caption file
- mideast.gif - Color image of the Middle East including Somalia
- mideast.txt - caption file
- moonfals.gif - False color mosaic of the northern regions of
- the Moon
- moonfals.txt - caption file
- moongrid.gif - Gray scale Moon image with overlayed grid
- moongrid.txt - caption file
-
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- andes.txt
-
- PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
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-
- PHOTO CAPTION GALILEO
- December 22, 1992 P-41493
- TOP GLL/EM21
-
-
- This false-color mosaic of the central part of the Andes
- mountains of South America (70W, 19S) is made up of 42 images
- taken by the Galileo spacecraft from an altitude of about 25,000
- kilometers (15,000 miles). The combination of visible and near-
- infrared filters (green, 0.76 micron and 1.0 micron) was chosen
- for this picture to separate regions with distinct vegetation and
- soil types. The mosaic shows the area where Chile, Peru, and
- Bolivia meet. North is to the left, and the Pacific coast
- (bottom of picture) is in the foreground. Lakes Titicaca and
- Poopo are nearly black patches left to right; a large light blue
- area below and left of Lake Poopo is Salar de Uyuni, a dry salt
- lake some 120 kilometers (75 miles) across. These lakes lie in
- the Altiplano, a region between the western and eastern Andes,
- which are covered by clouds. The water/ice content of the clouds
- is indicated by their shade of pink. The vegetated Gran Chaco
- plains east of the Andes are pale green (top of picture). Light
- blue patches in the mountains to the north (left) are glaciers.
- The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the exploration o«f
- the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for NASA's Office of
- Space Science and Applications by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
-
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- earthmo2.txt
-
- PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
- PASADENA, CALIF. 91109.
- TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
-
- PHOTO CAPTION GALILEO
- December 22, 1992 P-41508
- TOP GLL/EM23
-
-
- Eight days after its encounter with the Earth, the Galileo
- spacecraft was able to look back and capture this view of the
- Moon in orbit about the Earth, taken from a distance of about 6.2
- million kilometers (3.9 million miles), on December 16. The
- picture was constructed from images take through the violet, red,
- and 1.0-micron infrared filters. The Moon is in the foreground,
- moving from left to right. The brightly-colored Earth contrasts
- strongly with the Moon, which reflects only about one-third as
- much sunlight as Earth. Contrast and color have been computer-
- enhanced for both objects to improve visibility. Antarctica is
- visible through clouds (bottom). The Moon's far side is seen;
- the shadowy indentation in the dawn terminator is the south-
- Pole/Aitken Basin, one of the largest and oldest lunar impact
- features, extensively studied from Galileo during the first Earth
- flyby in December 1990. The Galileo project, whose primary
- mission is the exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is
- managed for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications by
- the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
-
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- mideast.txt
-
- PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
- PASADENA, CALIF. 91109.
- TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
-
- PHOTO CAPTION GALILEO
- December 22, 1992 P-41474
-
- TOP GLL/EM22
-
- This color image of North-East Africa and Arabia was taken from
- an altitude of about 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) by the
- Galileo spacecraft on December 9, 1992, as it left the Earth enroute
- to Jupiter. Most of Egypt (center left) including the Nile
- Valley, the Red Sea (slightly above center), Israel, Jordan, and
- the Arabian peninsula are cloud-free. In the center, below the
- cloud on the coast, is Khartoum, at the confluence of the Blue
- Nile and the White Nile. Somalia (lower right) is partly cloud-
- covered. The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the
- exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for
- NASAy's Office of Space Science and Applications by the Jet
- Propulsion Laboratory.
-
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- moonfals.txt
-
- PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
- PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
-
- PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-41490
- GLL/EM17
- December 22, 1992
-
- This false-color mosaic was constructed from a series of 53
- images taken through three spectral filters by Galileo'simaging
- system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the
- Moon on December 7, 1992. The part of the Moon visible from
- Earth is on the left side in this view. The color mosaic shows
- compositional variations in parts of the Moon's northern
- hemisphere. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such
- as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium impact basin
- toward the bottom of the picture. Blue to orange shades indicate
- volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare
- Tranquillitatis is richer in titanium than the green and orange
- maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with
- relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors;
- the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from
- them. The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the
- exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for
- NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications by the Jet
- Propulsion Laboratory.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- moongrid.txt
-
- PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
- PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
-
- PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-41475
- GLL/EM15
- December 22, 1992
-
- This mosaic picture of the Moon was compiled from 18 images taken
- with a green filter by Galileo's imaging system during the
- spacecraft's flyby on December 7, 1992, some 11 hours before its
- Earth flyby at 1509 UTC (7:09 a.m. Pacific Standard Time)
- December 8. The north polar region is near the top part of the
- mosaic, which also shows Mare Imbrium, the dark area on the left;
- Mare Serenitatis at center; and Mare Crisium, the circular dark
- area to the right. Bright crater rim and ray deposits are from
- Copernicus, an impact crater 96 kilometers (60 miles) in
- diameter. Computer processing has exaggerated the brightness of
- poorly illuminated features near the day/night terminator in the
- polar regions, giving a false impression of high reflectivity
- there. The digital image processing was done by DLR, the German
- aerospace research establishment near Munich, an international
- collaborator in the Galileo mission. The Galileo project, whose
- primary mission is the exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-
- 97, is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science and
- Applications by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
-
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