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Galileo, 1989-2003

Galileo was an robotic spacecraft, which studied Jupiter and its moons. It was launched on October 19, 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.

 

Galileo plunged into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere on September 21, 2003. The spacecraft was deliberately destroyed to protect one of its own discoveries — a possible ocean beneath the icy crust of the moon Europa.

 

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Image Number: STS034-71-000AK

Date: October 19, 1989

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