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Galileo's Flyby of Almathea
An anonymous reader writes "The spectacular Galileo flybys of Jupiter, Europa and Io are largely credited with the discovery of frozen water ice and some of the earliest examples of non-solar (tidal) heating anywhere in our solar system. For the next 10 days, Galileo scientists are preparing for their next target: probing one of Jupiter's moons, Almathea, at the close-up range of 100 miles. Almathea is one of the most unusual moons in the solar system, because it gives off more heat than it receives from the Sun."
is that anything like unfrozen ice water?
Lisa, In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
Yes i know there are other explainations
Doesn't anyone make a good cooling system for moons?
I thought this Galileo guy died a long time ago. And with him being so busy with Astronomy how did he ever find the time to learn how to Fly?
Boy you sure learn something new everyday reading Slashdot!
And NASA releases a picture of the Intel Inside logo on the surface...
LETS DECOMPOSE & ENJOY ASSEMBLING
a civilization of alien potheads who have hotboxed an entire atmosphere?
or maybe the worlds biggest overclocked processor.
I can't think of any other reasonable theory to account for this moon radiating so much heat.
lysergically yours
I mean, that's the only explanation I can come up with. Ours just...you know, sits there. We go there once, get bored and come back. So we spend our time looking at other planets' moons instead of making it back to ours. I mean really. Give our moon some lubbin'!
Zech Harvey, MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
...isn't that the planet where they used to build luxury planets for the super-rich?
Well, I think I speak (type?) for all of us here - did you, in fact, get some?
Black holes are where God divided by zero
Did Galileo find a Black Monolith yet?
"All these are yours, save Io. Attempt no landing there."
No problem, guv. These other moons look much more interesting.
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
"Almathea is one of the most unusual moons in the solar system, because it gives off more heat than it ceives from the Sun."
Funny. My girl does the same thing during the more active cycles.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it well worth the effort.
in between me and those huge, huge objects that were so very far away still sends tingling down my spine whenever I think about it.
I think so.
"That's no moon... It's a space station!"
The thought that there was nothing (well, almost nothing) in between me and those huge, huge objects that were so very far away still sends tingling down my spine whenever I think about it. It reminds me, when I think that there is pretty much nothing left to do or discover, that there is indeed a whole universe out there, waiting for (or perhaps indifferent to) us.
You're talking 'bout the girl now right?
Repeat after me: We are all individuals
And the giant superintellegent Jovian gasbags who get whacked on the head by it will suddenly notice those insignificant 'big asteroids' closer to the sun and declare war on them..