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On this day in space! Nov. 5, 2002: NASA's Galileo spacecraft flies by Jupiter moon Almathea only to find it's a 'pile of icy rubble less dense than water'


The Galileo spacecraft was running on cosmic fumes by the time it reached Amalthea and the flyby would be a last of its kind.

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