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Galileo's Final Blaze of Glory

EccentricAnomaly writes: "CNN reports that the Galileo spacecraft is about to perform its last flyby of Io. Galileo will skim a mere 100 km above Io to enter a trajectory that crashes into Jupiter in 2003. This is to avoid the spacecraft running out of fuel and accidentally crashing into Europa which might contaminate it with any bacteria spores on Galileo. This is a real concern - Apollo 12 found bacteria on Surveyor 3 that survived two and a half years on the moon."

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  1. Re:I know I should'nt be by EDDY+CURRENT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hmm I'm normal and sometimes my colds lst for weeks.....

  2. yeah by Treeluvinhippy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    my head hurt too after watching Marky Mark in that piece of crap.

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  3. Re:bacteria.. by Richard_at_work · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what ever u do, make sure ure cigarettes are extinguished properly ;)

  4. liquid gas? by Max+Merciless · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't that an oxymoron?