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Loading contentJupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System — a gas giant more massive than all the other planets combined. It has no solid surface; its visible 'surface' is the top of a deep, turbulent atmosphere.
Jupiter's atmosphere is organized into colorful bands of clouds driven by powerful winds. Its most famous feature is the Great Red Spot, an enormous storm that has persisted for a very long time.
Jupiter is orbited by a large number of moons. The four largest — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — were discovered by Galileo and are called the Galilean moons; Europa in particular is studied for its subsurface ocean.
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Europa Clipper will make dozens of flybys of Jupiter's moon Europa to assess its habitability.
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Jupiter orbiter · NASA · launched 1989.
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JUICE is ESA's mission to study Jupiter's icy moons Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.
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Juno is a NASA space probe launched in 2011 that entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016 to study the planet's composition, gravity, and magnetic field.
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Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter.
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Pioneer 11 flew past Jupiter and became the first spacecraft to encounter Saturn.
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Voyager 1 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 that explored Jupiter and Saturn and has since become the most distant human-made object, traveling in interstellar space.
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Voyager 2 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 and the only spacecraft to have flown past all four giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.