14: Number of years the Galileo spacecraft spent in space

8: Number of years it spent in orbit around Jupiter

2: Average number of months it took for the spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system

31: Estimated speed, in miles per second, at which Galileo crashed into Jupiter’s atmosphere, which crushed the spacecraft on Sept. 21, 2003

Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Galileo Web site, www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo