I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that! |
It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission. |
It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school. |
It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end. |
That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. That's where the big surprises came. |
The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression, |
We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered. |