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Listening Unit one passage 23


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★Listen to part of the talk being given by a gas lecturer in an Astronomy class

It' my pleasure to come to you today to talk about the Galileo machine to the planet Jupiter. Galileo was launched in 1989 and we had to wait until the end of the 1995 for the spacecraft and its probe to reach Jupiter. Of course, there are some exciting moments for a long wait too; I first visit the Doctor Black astronomy class back to Galileo for just visit the Asteroid Belt. And it' able at that time to bring the Galileo' images of the Asteroid Gaspra. That was the first time we got up-closed look at the Asteroid. It was just amazing. But we are also some disappointments. In the April of 1991 we realize that one of the antennas that was suppose to transmit data was not function. That mean we have to rely on the small antennas to give us data and we had been quiet clear to use what we received from Galileo. As I mention before at the end of 1995 the Galileo probe finally enter Jupiter atmosphere we knew Jupiter' position at the time was made communication at spacecraft difficult. So we decide to suspend data transmission. After waiting about half a year, we began to receive data about the Jupiter' atmosphere in satellites. We were continued to collect for 2 years. And now if you all were waiting for-direct images of Jupiter.


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