Chapter 3 Translator's Preface

Liu Xinsheng Arthur Clarke, a world-renowned science fiction writer, has not only won numerous awards, but also has amazing sales volume, and his rich imagination is amazing. The various phenomena encountered in Arthur's space adventures can be closely integrated with the real world, and provide a very imaginative metaphor, giving people an immersive and inextricable feeling.Its description of the characters is extremely delicate, the explanation of the phenomenon is extremely thorough, and the narration of the plot is extremely tortuous, which is worthy of careful scrutiny and deep thinking by readers.

The whole book is divided into nine parts and 60 chapters. The chapters are exciting and interesting, and each chapter forms a unit of its own but is interrelated.For the convenience of readers, each article has an outline of the abstract, which provides readers with reference when reading. Although the book describes adventures in the future, it can coincide with today's technology, and the analysis of characters and people's hearts is incisive and vivid.This book is a collection of science fiction and reasoning novels, and it is very worthy of careful study and discussion by readers.

Introducing the Galileo Mission The Galileo space missions in the Arthur Clarke original sequence were planned as early as the mid-1970s.In the early years of space exploration, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 both flew past Jupiter, and the Voyager spacecraft mentioned in the original preface has also successfully passed the edge of the solar system and entered deeper space.In 1976 a group headed by Professor Van Allen of the University of Iowa was tasked with a NASA space mission; a probe was launched to study the atmosphere of Jupiter while orbiting it within two years The star has been studied twelve times, on the one hand to study the star, and on the other hand to study the formation and magnetic field of its related satellites.This plan began in January 1982 after the US Congress passed it, and the space vehicle is planned to be carried out by the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.

Due to the tragedy in 1986, as the Challenger disappeared, the program was suspended for a while, but in the end it took off on October 18, 1989 with the expectations of all mankind. On December 7, 1995, the Galileo spacecraft reached the atmosphere of Jupiter and sank at a speed of 50 kilometers per second. With the opening of the parachute and the separation of the heat shield, it began to detect the temperature, pressure and atmospheric composition of Jupiter. Mission, Galileo is 200,000 kilometers above Jupiter.This is also the moment 385 years after Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter.

In December 1995, the Galileo spacecraft approached the Io satellite. Due to the gravitational force of the satellite, the spacecraft has entered its orbit, but because the spacecraft's tape recorder failed during orbiting, it was impossible to see this. "Closer photos" of stars.Assisted by the gravity of this satellite, the spaceship steers itself toward Jupiter. The data returned by the spacecraft at the end of 1992 showed that Jupiter's satellite Callisto also has a magnetic field, so it will also affect the direction of the solar wind, and some small satellites also have magnetism, which were all unexpected.

The Galileo spacecraft sent back a lot of information one after another, which seems to have some overlap with the content of "2061"...