QUESTION:
What do you hope to discover from the results sent to you by the Jupiter probe?

ANSWER from Dr. Karen Buxbaum on February 2, 1996: 
If you do any research about the probe, you'll find out that there were
several instruments (7 actually) on board that were designed to make
measurements while they were near or inside Jupiter's atmosphere.  There
was also an experiment that didn't require a special instrument; it was
called the Doppler Wind Experiment.  The Doppler Wind Experiment actually
used the tiny changes in the radio signal as the probe descended to tell
us about how the Probe was being moved or shifted off its course by the
winds in Jupiter's atmosphere.  What kind of measurements?  Well, imagine
a probe in Earth's atmosphere--what might it try to measure?  You'll
probably come up with some of the right answers.  Okay, do you have some
ideas?  1. What is the atmosphere made of?  2. What are the clouds like? 
3. Is there lightning?  How much?  (The Voyager spacecraft took pictures
many years ago of Jupiter and saw flashes of light on the night side of
Jupiter suggesting there are lightning storms in Jupiter's atmosphere.) 
If you are more expert in atmospheric studies, you could also ask
questions to finish off the list like: 4. Are there layers or a special
structure in the atmosphere as you get deeper into it?  5. Are there
distinctive temperature differences at different depths?  6. Are there
energetic particles zooming around in the atmosphere that can be measured? 
Well, that's the main list of things the encounter was designed to teach
us. 

On Monday, January 22, the Galileo probe scientists and engineers had their 
first press conference to discuss their results and you may have seen some 
coverage in the newspapers and magazines about it.  How about using the Word 
Wide Web to look for Galileo results?  You might find out some new information 
that didn't make it to your local papers.