Death of Galileo

[coalescent]

18:57, sunday 21st September, 2003:

The Galileo space craft will finally end its 14-year mission to Jupiter and its moons on Sunday.

The probe has been instructed to destroy itself in the atmosphere of the gas-giant planet.
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The mission team decided last year that Galileo should end its days in a blaze of glory.

With the space craft almost out of fuel and power, Nasa does not want to risk it colliding with one of Jupiter's moons.

There is a slim chance that a microbe from Earth could have hitched a ride on the probe.

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.

(Another step further away from space exploration, or at least that's how it feels. Sigh.)

Comments

[truckerr.livejournal.com]

what happens if it doesn't want to destroy itself?
WHAT THEN?!?

What?!

[applez.livejournal.com]

And leave Europa to a bunch of taikonauts?! I think no ... best get the Stars & Stripes there first! "I Proclaim this World for..."

;-)

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