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The exploration of Jupiter has been conducted via close observations by automated spacecraft. It began with the arrival of Pioneer 10 into the Jovian system in 1973, and, as of 2024 [update] , has continued with eight further spacecraft missions in the vicinity of Jupiter and two more en route.
Montage of planets and some moons that the two Voyager spacecraft have visited and studied. It is the only program that visited all four outer planets. A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter, with four spacecraft also visiting Saturn.
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
Exploration of Jupiter. Pioneer 11, Jupiter and Saturn fly-by; Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, Jupiter fly-by en route to other outer Solar System fly-bys; Galileo, Jupiter orbiter; Cassini–Huygens, Jupiter fly-by for Saturn orbiter and Titan lander, respectively; New Horizons, Jupiter flyby en route to Pluto fly-by; Juno, Jupiter polar orbiter
Voyager 1 · Jupiter · Io · Europa · Ganymede · Callisto The trajectory of Voyager 1 through the Jupiter system Voyager 1 began photographing Jupiter in January 1979. Its closest approach to Jupiter was on March 5, 1979, at a distance of about 349,000 kilometres (217,000 miles) from the planet's center. [ 37 ]
In the hours prior to Voyager 1's encounter with Io, the spacecraft acquired images for a global map with a resolution of at least 20 km (12 mi) per pixel over the satellite's leading hemisphere (the side that faces the moon's direction of motion around Jupiter) down to less than 1 km (0.6 mi) per pixel over portions of the sub-Jovian ...
This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole.
A Tediously Accurate Map of the Solar System (web based scroll map scaled to the Moon being 1 pixel) NASA/JPL Solar System main page. NASA's Solar System Simulator; Solar System Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration