# Jupiter Probe **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 27, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiter-probe/635970 "2012-09-27T04:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Niply\_Elder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiter-probe/635970/1 "2012-09-27T04:47:09Z")
I’m interested in learning more about gas giants and read on wikipedia that a probe was shot off into Jupiter that took data and eventually was crushed and destoyed by the environment. Does anyone know what data it sent back? What did the probe look like? How long until failure? And most importantly, could a beefier probe make it on deeper, navigate around and come back out? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiter-probe/635970/2 "2012-09-27T04:49:46Z")
> **[Galileo (spacecraft)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_%28spacecraft%29#Atmospheric_entry_probe)** > > Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle Atlantis , during STS-34. Galileo arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, after gravitational assist flybys of Venus and Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. > The Jet P... ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiter-probe/635970/3 "2012-09-27T06:35:54Z")
> [@The\_Niply\_Elder](#): > > And most importantly, could a beefier probe make it on deeper, navigate around and come back out? Jupiter is a very deep gravity well. It’d take a very substantial rocket to boost even a small probe out of it. By substantial, I mean something roughly the same size rocket as launched the probe from Earth. So in other words, no we can’t get a probe out of Jupiter. As for going deeper, probably. Maneuvering around could be accomplished by putting some control surfaces (i.e. wings) on it. But it’d be constantly falling like a glider unless maybe we put a propeller or jet on it. Hey, that might work. Put a jet engine on it with a tank of oxygen as fuel. The oxy burns with the hydrogen in the atmosphere. Should work just fine, until it runs out of fuel. Why we would want to do that, I don’t know. In terms of the size fo Jupiter, the probe couldn’t go very far before running out of fuel. So it’s not like it’s going to get some place significantly different from where it entered in the first place. Why waste the effort to send the jet and fuel when you could send more scientific experiments. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Niply\_Elder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiter-probe/635970/4 "2012-09-28T03:05:28Z")
Thanks for the link. Is any of the raw data received from the probe published? ---
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> [@The\_Niply\_Elder](#): > > Thanks for the link. Is any of the raw data received from the probe published? Maybe like this? [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentSearch.do?spacecraft=Galileo%20Probe](http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentSearch.do?spacecraft=Galileo%20Probe) ---
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Actually, maybe this is a more direct link: [http://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/gp\_0001/](http://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/gp_0001/)