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Questions pertaining the mission of the Galileo probe studying Jupiter and its moons between 1995 and 2003.

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Did the Galileo spacecraft cause a "blotch" on Jupiter after it crashed?

The speculation is that Galileo gradually sunk into thicker layers of Jupiter body, and eventually reached level where pressure squeezed its RTG battery so much the plutonium went supercritical. … Galileo was powered by RTGs. That is a heat source powered by the decay of Plutonium-238. Nuclear decay rate does not change. …
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