December 7, 1995: Galileo Reaches Jupiter
On December 7, 1995, NASA's Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, becoming the first craft to orbit an outer planet.
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The Little Spacecraft That Stared Down Jupiter
On December 3, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 swept past Jupiter, returning humanity's first close-up images of the giant planet.
Voyager 1 Meets Jupiter: Volcanoes, a Ring, and 19,000 Photos
On March 5, 1979, a car-sized robot swept past Jupiter and rewrote the textbooks — finding erupting volcanoes on Io and a ring no one expected.
Galileo Spots Jupiter's Moons and Rewrites the Cosmos
On January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his homemade telescope at Jupiter and saw strange points of light — the first sighting of the four moons that helped topple the Earth-centered universe.