TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨🚀💥 When a #space mission ends, scientists often choose to smash the probe into a planet instead of letting it drift. This destruction protects potentially habitable #moons from #bacteria and allows the #spacecraft to collect #data during its final descent.
👉 https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-missions/spacecraft-crash-into-planets
#NASA #ESA #planets #science #astronomy #engineering #exploration
We humans love smashing our spacecraft into planets. These are the times we got amazing science from complete destruction | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Many space missions have been crashed into Solar System worlds on purpose. Here's why we do it, and the science we get from the destruction.