Galileo to Crash Into Jupiter

Galileo, one of NASA’s most successful spaceships ever, will crash into Jupiter on Sunday. I wish I could be there to see it. Galileo has ended it useful life, it’s power supply is almost exhausted, and so the engineers will take this opportunity to learn tidbits about the Jovian atmosphere before the spacecraft finally disintegrates. The decision to crash Galileo into Jupiter was influenced by the fact that the spaceship may still contain Earthly microbes, which have shown the ability to survive in the harshest conditions, and engineers did not want to take the chance that these microbes could contaminate the moon Europa, a moon that could possibly harbor some form of life. The picture shown is a famous picture taken by Galileo of the Jovian moon Io, with an active volcano erupting on the left rim of the moon, a huge unexpected surprise to NASA engineers.