Galileo "The Space Exploration Telescope"

On october 18, 1989 Galileo was launched into space. It was created by NASA and utilized for space exploration. It was sent to Jupiter to study it's atmosphere, moons and surrounding magnetosphere. Galileo was the first satellite ever to encounter an asteroid, and to photograph an asteroids moon. The ultimate goal for Galileo is once it reaches Jupiter, to penetrate it's cloudy layer and take pictures. However, it will never reach the core of Jupiter because it is 60,000 km to the core from the cloud tops. In order for Galileo to even reach Jupiter, it needed to use the gravitational pull from other planets to sling shot it further and deeper into space. I think that satellites are a very incredible invention, to be able to throw these things up into space and gather information for us. Think about all that we have learned from them, and imagine how much more advanced they can only get with time..