Did Nasa Acidentally "Nuke" Jupiter?

On September 21, 2003 NASA deliberately directed its amazing, still-functioning Galileo spacecraft to make one final, 108,000 mph suicidal plunge into Jupiter’s vast atmosphere. Thus ended the incredibly successful eight-year unmanned NASA Galileo mission … which had returned against all odds an array of phenomenal new information on Jupiter and its “mini-solar system of moons”… in a literal, most fitting “blaze of glory.”



The intent of this unfortunate decision was to protect Europa, one of those Jovian moons. Galileo’s repeated Europa observations (below) over the course of its highly successful eight years have all-but-confirmed an extraordinary model, first proposed and published by this author in 1980:

that, beneath its several-miles-thick ice cover, Europa still harbors a liquid water ocean… an ocean potentially teeming with 4.5 billion year-old alien life!



NASA’s decision to finally terminate Galileo via a fiery plunge into Jupiter, was designed in 2002 to prevent any possible biological contamination of this remarkable environment from a future random collision with the spacecraft, once its fuel was exhausted. The recommendation, from the National Research Council’s Space Science Studies Board’s “Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration” to NASA re the Galileo “problem,” noted,

It continues with pictures and evidence of damage on jupiter...

Did NASA Accidentally Nuke Jupiter?

reply to post by zakd619


i think somewhere they meant to crash it but try to cover up that there were nukes(fuel) to be used as a device to implode

there is another thread and it follows with Lucifer project for saturn

reply to post by MurderCityDevil


ya i think your right. do you have a link to that topic?

So everyone believes this theory?

reply to post by zakd619


hardly but its not a bad thing to speculate...after all anything is possible if you have an open mind about things

Well, no, because it's absurd for many reasons.

But it sounds good if you don't know the science.

The plunge of the probe intro Jupiter was a good idea- if we find life on Europa we know it hasn't been contaminated by the Galileo spaecraft. It is impossible to "ignite" Jupiter anmd turn it into a a star as Jupiter is simply not large enough- I don't think NASA was trying to do what nature had failed to do.

The impact did leave a small mark in the NEB (Northen equatorial Belt) but this was nothing compared to the marks left by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9! Even those marks only lasted about a year or so.