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In slightly less than 45 Minutes, one of the finest examples of Human engineering, innovation, and "make-do-with-what-you've-got" will fall silent, and shortly thereafter cease to exist, drawn into the maw of Jupiter.
It will go in a blaze of glory...streaking through the atmosphere at 100,000 Miles per hour, leaving a silvery wake of vaporized metal across the Jovian sky for a short time, whatever wasn't vaporized by the re-entry will certainly be vaporized as it descends into the depths of the Jovian Atmosphere.
Galileo's misson is completed, it mission parameters fulfilled, and then some. But now we must protect that which might be from harm, and so to this we sent the spacecraft to meet it's ultimate destiny.
Galileo Galilei would be pleased.
It will go in a blaze of glory...streaking through the atmosphere at 100,000 Miles per hour, leaving a silvery wake of vaporized metal across the Jovian sky for a short time, whatever wasn't vaporized by the re-entry will certainly be vaporized as it descends into the depths of the Jovian Atmosphere.
Galileo's misson is completed, it mission parameters fulfilled, and then some. But now we must protect that which might be from harm, and so to this we sent the spacecraft to meet it's ultimate destiny.
Galileo Galilei would be pleased.
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