On Jan. 30, 13 months after NASA ended observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer spacecraft, the satellite plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and burned up over central Egypt.
Launched in 1992, the craft was the first mission to explore the heavens at ultrashort ultraviolet wavelengths, which can’t make it through Earth’s atmosphere.
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