Why did NASA intentionally crash the Galileo probe into Jupiter?

Why did NASA intentionally crash the Galileo probe into Jupiter?

Galileo was an unmanned NASA spacecraft which studied the planet Jupiter and it's moons, as well as several other solar system bodies. Named after the astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and entry probe.

Years of Jupiter's intense radiation took it's toll on the spacecraft systems, and it's fuel supply was running low in the early 2000s.

Galileo had not been sterilized, so to prevent forward contamination of it's moons, a plan was formulated to send it directly into Jupiter.

So Galileo was intentionally commanded to crash into Jupiter, which eliminated the possibility it would impact any of Jupiter’s moons and seed it with bacteria.

Galileo was able to record many amazing things besides Jupiter’s moons, hopefully the newest technology inventions will be able to provide even greater information of what’s out there.

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