Jupiter Impact By The Galileo Spacecraft

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In September 2003 Nasa's Galileo spacecraft entered Jupiter's atmosphere. An interesting finding was that there was less water than expected, perhaps because conditions were unusual there. That is an ongoing question. This is one of Nasa's high quality animations of the event.

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• jupiter
• galileo
• impact
• september
• 2003
• nasa

[KingWing777]

did they died?

[andrewburbidge]

@KingWing777 It was an unmanned probe. If there were bacteria alive on the probe, could they have survived and be multiplying somewhere in Jupiter's atmosphere? I think Nasa took precautions to try and ensure there were no live bacteria.

[robert0joe]

Why did they crash the orbiter?

[andrewburbidge]

@robert0joe It radioed back information about the descent.

[robert0joe]

@andrewburbidge I mean they crashed the satellite to avoid contaminating Europa in case the satellite crashes to Europa.

[andrewburbidge]

@robert0joe You're right. They put a probe into the atmosphere, which radioed back data and eventually ended the mission by putting Galileo into the atmosphere also, to avoid possible future contamination of Jupiter's moons. There's a lot of information in the Wikipedia article. How they dealt with the faults that occurred!

[maidenslayer]

@robert0joe - It's because Europa may have a liquid water sea beneath it's icy mantle which could contain alien life which they didn't want to contaminate with life from Earth so that is why they destroyed the probe by plunging it into Jupiters atmosphere.

[XypherXIII]

Saturn was ignited...... now we are tryin triton and some other mass of Fe.

[XypherXIII]

galileo has plutonium.....was aimed at Jupiter.......trying to "jump Start" a planet orour new Ra

[DevilSchoolkid]

there could not be any bacteria on the probe. the probe wasn't destroyed because it crashed, Jupiter's dense atmosphere would have either burned it up or got crushed it from the pressure. furthermore, the probe didn't have the velocity to go much further, and we don't know much about Jupiter, so they got information as it crashed. Voyager is the only probe that has been able to go far because the planets aligned and it gave it a gravity boost. Galileo didn't have that.

[TheWitchOvAgnesi]

LOOK OUT!!! WE'RE GONNA FUCKIN' CRA... [BOOM!]

[komodojoe2]

I Remember NASA said in 1989 or something they sent this spacecraft to Jupiter. By this video, i guess it failed?

[ghostofblade]

@ArtStone yeah i agree with you dude

[ArtStone]

Not from the actual spacecraft - only a simulation