NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this 2017 image of Jupiter.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Nine robotic probes have visited Jupiter, beginning with the Pioneer 10 flyby 50 years ago. All the spacecraft were owned and operated by NASA, and only two—the flagship Galileo mission and the current Juno campaign—ended up in orbit for long-term studies of the gas giant and its entourage of moons...
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