Today, with 2.8 billion miles on the odometer, spacecraft Galileo sent its last packet back to Earth. Galileo brought us much closer to our largest planetary neighbor, Jupiter. We're a richer species for the knowledge of Jupiter and its satellite worlds delivered to us by Galileo.
The Galileo mission ended when the spacecraft impacted Jupiter on September 21, 2003 at 18:57 UTC. Galileo's last signal arrived 52 minutes later at 19:50 UTC. Galileo has been in orbit around Jupiter since December 1995.
