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cnn.com: Galileo's Gone, But Successor in Works

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Wed, 09/24/2003 - 2:00am

The probe was crashed into Jupiter on purpose to prevent terrestrial contamination of any of the planet's icy (and possibly life-bearing) moons. It's replacement, the "Jupiter Icy Moons Orbitor, will be 100 times more powerful. Read the full story.

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