Galileo probe supplied data for 57 minutes.

NASA'S Galileo orbiter received data for 57 minutes as its atmospheric probe parachuted into the ammonia clouds of Jupiter last week, program managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported. A first look at the data, stored in the spacecraft's computer memory as a backup to its balky tape...

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