Galileo

Galileo

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 * Scientists think there could be life on Europa, so they want to make sure that any microbes from Earth that may be riding on Galileo cannot infect Europa.
 * The [|Galileo spacecraft], which has been orbiting [|Jupiter] since 1995, will crash into the planet on September 21, 2003. The crash is not an accident!
 * Scientists want to make sure Galileo will never accidentally crash into Jupiter's moon [|Europa], so they are destroying the spacecraft by crashing it into Jupiter.
 * Since the team of scientists and engineers controlling Galileo knew that it would be destroyed, they decided to send Galileo on a risky orbit close to Jupiter in November 2002. The space near Jupiter is filled with deadly radiation, and Galileo had stayed away from that area earlier in its mission.