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The Galileo spacecraft has been a hugely successful mission! The spacecraft now faces extreme danger as it flies into the "heart" of Jupiter's radiation belts. Will Galileo survive? Will it discover new insights about Amalthea during its close encounter with the Jovian moon? What will it discover about the hostile environment deep in the heart of the radiation belts?
GAVRT students and teachers will be monitoring Jupiter's radiation belts during the next eight months. The GAVRT team will be measuring the intensity of the radiation belts and looking for any variability with respect to time scales of days, weeks, or months. The GAVRT observation will be coordinated with measurements at the Very Large Array (VLA). These ground-based results will be used with in-situ measurements made by Galileo to test and improve current models of Jupiter's radiation belts.

The spacecraft's flyby is November 5, 2002.