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Galileo's Flyby of Almathea

Posted by michael on from the diana-gallagher-songs dept.

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."

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  1. Re:frozen water ice? by hatchet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is not true!
    Ice is water in solid state.
    Solid mercury is not ice, nor is any other solid compound else than water.

  2. Re:How about Vanilla Ice? by zakath · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Please tell me you didn't just recite that from memory...

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  3. Re:frozen water ice? by DustMagnet · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Maybe they wanted to point out that the water had been frozen to form ice at some point. There are people who believe it was just created as ice, so it was never frozen.

    No wait. Nevermind.

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  4. Re:How about Vanilla Ice? by John+Biggabooty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day!

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