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2003-02-26 | MISSIONS
Galileo's Jupiter Tour Winding Down
NASA's Galileo spacecraft is preparing to conclude its 14 year mission when the robotic explorer's flight team ceases operations this Friday. Since its deployment from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1989, Galileo produced a string of discoveries about asteroids, a fragmented comet, Jupiter's atmosphere, Jupiter's magnetic environment, and especially about the geologic diversity of Jupiter's four largest moons. This information has been invaluable for determining whether or not many of these locales, such as the moon Europa, could be places to look for signs of life in our solar system. Galileo will coast for the next seven months before transmitting a few final hours of science measurements, after which it will take a final plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere.
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