BBC: The Galileo space craft has been destroyed in the atmosphere of Jupiter. The probe was sent on a collision path with the gas-giant planet and should have impacted at 1857 GMT.The US space agency (Nasa) is now waiting for the signal from the probe to be lost. Because it takes about 52 minutes for a radio signal to reach Earth at the speed of light, it will be a while yet before Galileo scientists can confirm the space craft is actually dead.
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