Galileo at 30: A Celebration
Monday, December 8, 2025
8:00 A.M. Sign-in and Coffee
8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. Galileo at 30: A Celebration
Chen 100 Lecture Hall, California Institute of Technology
The Galileo at 30 Celebration celebrated the legacy of NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter. Sponsored by JPL and the Caltech Keck Institute for Space Studies, the event was held at Caltech’s Chen 100 Lecture Hall on December 8, 2025, marking 30 years + 1 day from the spacecraft’s historic orbit insertion. The program featured invited talks from scientists whose groundbreaking discoveries with Galileo data transformed our understanding of Jupiter and its satellites and set the stage for future missions. The event was followed by an evening panel discussion for the public.
Monday, December 8, 2025 |
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Time (PST) |
Event (All titles are tentative) |
Speaker |
| 8:00 AM | Sign-in and Coffee |
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| 8:30 AM | Welcome: Galileo at 30 | Bob Pappalardo |
| 8:40 AM | Memories of Galileo |
Participatory Input |
| 8:45 AM | The Galileo Mission: History, Challenges, and Legacy (1.7 MB .pdf) |
Erik Conway |
| 9:10 AM | Galileo's Communications Legacy to Subsequent Deep Space Missions (1.5 MB .pdf) |
Les Deutsch |
| 9:35 AM | Galileo: Reflections on Origin and Discoveries (0.2 MB .pdf) | David Morrison |
| 10:00 AM | Memories of Galileo |
Participatory Input |
| 10:05 AM | BREAK |
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| 10:25 AM | What it Took to Get These Measurements: An Engineer's Perspective (4.1 MB .pdf) |
Steve Jaskulek |
| 10:50 AM | Jupiter's Magnetosphere (4.4 MB .pdf) |
Margaret Kivelson |
| 11:15 AM | Jupiter's Plasma Environment (5.1 MB .pdf) | Fran Bagenal |
| 11:40 AM | Memories of Galileo |
Participatory Input |
| 11:45 AM | LUNCH (on your own; recommend: Chandler Dining Hall) |
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| 1:15 PM | Jupiter's Atmosphere (3.1 MB .pdf) |
Andy Ingersoll |
| 1:45 PM | The Galileo Mission to the Jupiter System: NIMS and Europe's Surface Composition (4.3 MB .pdf) | Tom McCord |
| 2:10 PM | Europa from Galileo (28.5 MB .pdf) | Elizabeth Turtle |
| 2:35 PM | Memories of Galileo |
Participatory Input |
| 2:40 PM | BREAK |
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| 3:00 PM | Calisto from Galileo (7.2 MB .pdf) | Jeff Moore |
| 3:25 PM | Ganymede from Callisto (8.9 MB .pdf) |
Geoff Collins |
| 3:40 PM | Io from Galileo (7.2 MB .pdf) | Ashley Davies |
| 4:15 PM | Memories of Galileo: Synopsis (1.5 MB .pdf) |
Cynthia Phillips |
| 4:30 PM | PUBLIC RECEPTION |
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| 5:00 PM | Keck Institute for Space Studies Public Panel: Moderator: Erik Conway; Panelists: Bill O’Neil, Rosaly Lopes, Bob Pappalardo, Elizabeth Turtle |
Various |
| 6:00 PM | END OF PROGRAM | |