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NASA dusts off FORTRAN manual, revives 20-year-old data on Ganymede

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Bad graphic

In the graphic accompanying this article the high-gain antenna is fully open. In reality it failed to open enough to be used. Only the low-gain antenna was used, plunging the telemetry rates down by 3 orders of magnitude.