Galileo Plunges Into Jupiter's Atmosphere
Credit: NASA/JPL
After 2.8 billion miles of travel, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was scheduled for a fatal plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere Sept. 21 to protect the moon Europa from possible contamination by lingering Earth microbes. In this composite of images from Galileo's eight-year tour of the Jovian system, Europa...
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