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Galileo Nearing Its End

Posted by michael on from the look-out-below dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Mission operations for the Galileo space probe, currently orbiting Jupiter, are scheduled to be shut down at the end of this month. Once a month thereafter scientists will check on the probe until September when the probe will be ordered to crash into Jupiter. The $1.5 billion mission met 70 percent of its science objectives and made a number of serendipitous discoveries along the way -- despite a range of problems."

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  1. This sounds an awful lot like... by devphil · · Score: 3, Funny


    ...the way my cars usually go. They run and run and run, and eventually start falling apart so fast that I just check on them once every so often, and eventually crash them into something just to finish the damn thing off.

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  2. ST by QEDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    they have to crash it... haven't you seen the Star Trek movie about Vger?

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  3. Someones gonna get angry by jak0b · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just know that this is going crash into the mayor of Jupiteria's house and start an intergalactic war. (or would that be inter-solarsystemic war?)

  4. but will this cause Jupiter to go supernova? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gotta make *2010* really happen....perpetual light for mankind...and more tax revenue for California!