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Questions about the exploration of the planet Jupiter.

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Why didn't the Galileo spacecraft take an image in Jupiter's upper atmosphere?

tremendous velocity with respect to the planets' cloud tops, so any images captured close to the cloud tops would be smeared out (Juno pans rapidly to avoid this when imaging close to the cloud tops of Jupiter
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Why are we interested in visiting the giant planets' icy moons?

The motivation is the growing understanding, from the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini probes, that these icy moons (I'd throw in Enceladus) are geologically active with sub-surface oceans of liquid water …
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