IMAGE 300_399\301.Lbm,The Galileo probe undergoing final checks at the Kennedy Space Center before installation in Atlantis for the STS-34 mission.
IMAGE 300_399\302.Lbm,The inertial upper stage fires beneath the Galileo probe after its launch from Atlantis on STS-34 (artist's impression), boosting it to escape velocity and a complicated trajectory towards Jupiter.
IMAGE 300_399\303.Lbm,As Galileo approaches Jupiter in 1995, it releases a probe into the atmosphere to report on conditions there (artist's impression).
IMAGE 300_399\304.Lbm,With Jupiter as a backdrop, the Galileo probe encounters Io and its erupting volcanoes (artist's impression).