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GALILEO MISSION
Over
14 years being in space to the service of mankind
to explore the plant Jupiter and its moons
Anniversary of completion of this mission in
2003
About:
GALILEO was
an unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to
study the planet Jupiter and its moons.
Named after the astronomer and
Renaissance pioneer Galileo Galilei, it
was launched on October 18, 1989 by the
Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34
mission. It arrived at Jupiter on
December 7, 1995, a little more than six
years later, via gravitational assist
flybys of Venus and Earth. On this day,
i.e. September 21, 2003, after having
been 14 years in space and 8 years of
service in the Jovian system, Galileo's
mission was terminated by sending the
orbiter into Jupiter's atmosphere at a
speed of nearly 50 kilometres per second
to avoid any chance of it contaminating
local moons with bacteria from Earth. Of
particular concern was the ice-crusted
moon Europa, which, thanks to Galileo,
scientists now suspect harbors a
potentially life-supporting saltwater
ocean beneath its surface.
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