SPACE — On September 21 2003, the American Space Agency’s (NASA) Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons ended tragically. After 14 years of extraterrestrial exploration, Galileo committed suicide.
The spacecraft deliberately crashed into Jupiter. However, Galileo never reached the surface because it was crushed first by Jupiter’s dense gaseous atmosphere.
Galileo was launched in 1989 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. He arrived at Jupiter in 1995 or about 6 years later.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter and the first to send a probe into the gas giant’s atmosphere. The mission found evidence of salt water beneath the surface of three moons orbiting Jupiter, namely Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
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Galileo’s suicide was the best choice at that time. He had to drop into Jupiter because he ran out of fuel.
In addition, NASA wants to ensure that the spacecraft will not disturb Jupiter’s moons. Because the discovery of Galiloe suggests that the subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s moons could harbor life. Source: Space.com
2023-09-21 14:03:00
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