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October 18, 1989 12:53 p.m. EDT-

September 21, 2003

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Kennedy Space Center, Florida

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Orbiter

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2.8 billion mi (4.6 billion km)

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Number of People Who Worked on the Mission

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Number of People Who Worked on the Mission

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More than 800 people worked on this mission alone.

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Galileo flew past by Venus at an elevation of 10,000 miles or approximately 16,000 kilometers.

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Galileo was the spacecraft that first flew by an asteroid, whose name was Gaspra, at a distance of 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers).

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The purpose of this mission was to study Jupiter and its surrounding  moons, but numerous amounts of discoveries were made along the way.

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Galileo first flew by Earth at an elevation of 597 miles (960 kilometers). This orbiter used the gravitational pull of Earth to gain speed for the trip to Jupiter.

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The spacecraft became the first to find an asteroid’s moon, which was Dactyl, orbiting an asteroid, whose name was Ida.

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The orbiter observed pieces of a comet that impacted Jupiter, which was Comet Shoemaker Levy-9, while on its way to Jupiter.

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On the moon of Europa, which is one of Jupiter's largest moons, a breaking discovery was made that there was a possible existence of ocean water beneath the icebound crust of the moon.

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At last, Galileo arrived at the orbit of Jupiter.

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During the trip to Jupiter, Galileo carried a small probe, which first sampled the outer planet's atmosphere. Temperature, pressure, chemical composition, cloud characteristics, sunlight and energy internal to the planet, and lightning were measured by this small probe. Unfortunately on December 7, 1995, the small-scale probe that was brought by the spacecraft was demolished due to the severe surroundings deep within when it was moving down into the atmosphere of Jupiter.

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The magnetic field of Jupiter's other moons, Ganymede, was discovered by Galileo

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When Galileo was ordered to descend into the atmosphere of Jupiter, it was destroyed intentionally in order to protect the discovery made on Europa.

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On the moon, Io, a discovery was made that the surface was constantly and briskly resurfacing due to volcanic activity.