Intense radiation near Jupiter

Intense radiation near Jupiter sent the Galileo probe into a preprogrammed safe mode Nov. 5, but not before it recorded some data as it flew within 99 mi. of the small moon Amalthea on the way to its closest encounter with the planet itself. Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will try to...

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