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After 14 years in space, NASA's Galileo spacecraft will plunge into
Jupiter's crushing atmosphere Sunday to conclude its productive and
successful mission. With its fuel supply nearly gone, the craft is on a
collision course with Jupiter to eliminate any chance of an unwanted
impact with the Jovian moon Europa, which is likely to have a subsurface
ocean and possibly life. The crash of a spacecraft like Galileo on the moon Europa might in that case harm the ecosystem.

http://spaceflightnow.com/galileo/030920preview.html