The Scientific Investigations: Overview

Overview
 
There are 12 scientific experiments aboard the Galileo orbiter.


Remote Sensing

On the Despun Section
 
The despun section is home to four remote-sensing instruments. These are mounted on a movable scan platform with their optical axes aligned so that they view a nearly common area

For Jupiter and its moons, the remote-sensing instruments will be acquiring data that may reveal the history of the Jovian system and its present composition and processes.

Fields & Particles

On the Spun Section

 
The spun section contains six instruments that investigate particles and magnetic fields. (An adjunct to the ultraviolet spectrometer—the extreme ultraviolet spectrometer—is also carried on the spinning section.) The remaining two investigations use the radio system of the orbiter with a special ultrastable oscillator.

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