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NASA officials in Pasadena say the aging satellite Galileo made its closest pass yet to a moon of Jupiter today, but glitches aboard the spacecraft prevented it from taking pictures of volcanic Io. Galileo automatically shut down its camera and other science instruments after the spacecraft detected a computer reset.

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