Galileo's Flyby of Almathea

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Posted by michael on Friday October 25, 2002 @12:38AM 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."

9 of 169 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Hello losers by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-25 00:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Welcome to my world.
Imagine! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-25 00:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A Beowulf cluster of those!
Had to be said by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-25 01:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's no moon
Hey.. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-25 01:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Can I borrow your ink-pen? My electronic computer isn't working, so I have to use this writing paper.

For communicating with people from another galaxy, the extra redundancy(ha!) may be useful to get meaning across but lots of the local folks forget the joys of context as the nivisible helper to communication.
Re:frozen water ice? by hatchet · 2002-10-25 01:55 · 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.
Re:How about Vanilla Ice? by zakath · 2002-10-25 02:17 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

--
Re:frozen water ice? by DustMagnet · 2002-10-25 02:17 · 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.

--
'SBEMAIL!' is better than a goat!!
Re:frozen water ice? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-25 03:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Nice Troll!
Re:How about Vanilla Ice? by John+Biggabooty · 2002-10-25 03:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

--
That's Bigboo TAY! TAY!