...spacecraft arrives on December 7, 1995 at Jupiter. It took the spacecraft six years to complete the journey. The unmanned spacecraft was named by Galileo Galilei and was sent out by NASA. After 8 years of service in the Jovian system, its mission was terminated by sending the spacecraft into Jupiters atmosphere at a spped of nearly 50km/sec to avoid any chance of it contaminating local moons with bacteria from Earth. Sometimes it's quite scary what human beings are able to invent...
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