![]() ![]() Other scientists and glass-makers came forward to claim that they had made similar devices Lipperhey was denied his patent because of the claims. A week later, Lipperhey applied to patent his new device. In September of 1608, Lipperhey took his telescope to Prince Maurice of Nassau. No other telescope makers had done this, and Lipperhey’s telescope was the beginning of the telescope’s evolution. When he reduced the amount of light and focused it, the images became clear but remained dim. Lipperhey put a mask on his telescope that only allowed a small amount of light to enter his telescope. It was at this time that Hans Lippershey, who made spectacles in the Netherlands, began experimenting with lenses. Due to their imperfections, they were not useful for astronomic observation.īy the end of the 1500s and early 1600s, lens makers improved their abilities to cut and polish glasses. These lenses were not powerful, not polished, and not clear. In the 1400s, glasses were used widely across Europe. The telescope traces back to early makers of eyeglasses and lenses. Let’s take a look at the telescope and its impact on scientific history. Historians and scientists today still argue about who invented the telescope. It is easy to point to Hans Lipperhey as the inventor of the telescope, but the history of its invention is chaotic and confusing. His model inspired other scientists to work on perfecting the telescope. Lipperhey was a German-Dutch glass maker, and he managed to reduce the amount of light in his telescope while focusing it. More than 100 scientists from United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada and Sweden carried out Galileo's experiments.Many people believe that Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to invent and build the telescope however, the first telescope was made by Hans Lippershey in the early 1600s. ![]() International contribution estimated at an additional $110 million Total from start of planning through end of mission was $1.39 billion. Solid-state imaging camera, near-infrared mapping spectrometer, ultraviolet spectrometer, photopolarimeter radiometer, magnetometer, energetic particles detector, plasma investigation, plasma wave subsystem, dust detector, heavy ion counterĥ0 inches (127 centimeters) in diameter, 36 inches (91 centimeters) high, weighed 750 pounds (339 kilograms)Īpproximate number of people who worked on some portion of the Galileo mission: Power : 570 watts (at launch) from radioisotope thermoelectric generators.Weight : 4,902 pounds (2,223 kilograms), including 260 pounds (118 kilograms) of science instruments and 2,040 pounds (925 kilograms) of propellant.Size: 17 feet (5.3 meters) high magnetometer boom extended 36 feet (11 meters) to one side. ![]() Total distance traveled, launch to impact:Ībout 2.8 billion miles (4.6 billion kilometers) Speed of atmospheric entry at mission end:ġ06,000 miles per hour (47 kilometers per second) - equivalent of traveling from Los Angeles to New York City in 82 seconds Spacecraft entered Jupiter’s atmosphere on Sept. Io 7, Callisto 8, Ganymede 8, Europa 11, Amalthea 1 Number of Jupiter orbits during entire mission: Impacts of comet fragments into Jupiter observed while en route in July 1994 18, 1989 from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., aboard space shuttle Atlantis It was the first spacecraft to operate in a giant planet magnetosphere long enough to identify its global structure and to investigate its dynamics.It made the first, and so far only, direct observation of a comet colliding with a planet’s atmosphere (Shoemaker-Levy 9).It completed the first flyby and imaging of an asteroid (Gaspra, and later, Ida).It was the first spacecraft to deploy an entry probe into an outer planet's atmosphere.Galileo was the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. ![]()
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