The Galileo spacecraft was deliberately crashed into Jupiter in 2003 because mission planners feared a drifting probe could contaminate Europa's hidden ocean, forcing engineers to destroy the machine that revealed why Europa had to be protected - Space Daily
On September 21, 2003, NASA deliberately steered the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter at 108,000 miles per hour to keep its plutonium-powered hull from ever reaching Europa. The mission's success had made its continued existence dangerous to the science that w…
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