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It's my pleasure to come to you today to talk about the Galileo mission to the planet Jupiter. 1 ~8 \3 ~- B) e# {+ j0 ~) \
# G: p1 \; X( ^; u. o- E1 P8 YGalileo was launched in 1989 and we had to wait until the end of 1995 for the spacecraft and its probe to reach Jupiter. Of sourse, there were some exciting moments along the way too. I first visited Doctor Black's astronomy class back when Galileo had just visited the Asteroid Belt. (不知道这里的back什么意思。) I was able, at that time, to bring Galileo's images of the Asteroid Gaspra. That was the first time we got a close look at the asteroid. And it was just amazing.
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& ?4 B8 a7 r" T: `But there were also some disappointments. In the April of 1991, we realized that one of the antennas that was supposed to tranmit data had not functioned. That meant that we had to rely on all the smaller antennas to give us data, but we xxx that being quite pleased with what we received from Galileo. (此句太血腥)As I mentioned before, at the end of 1995, the Galileo probe finally entered Jupiter's atmosphere. We knew Jupiter's position at the time would make communication with spacecraft difficult, so we dicided to suspend data transmission. After waiting about half a year, we began to receive data about the Jupiter's atmosphere in satellites. And we continued collecting it for 2 years. And now, what you all have been waiting for - direct images of Jupiter.