On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes ...
It had a heck of a run, or interstellar journey more precisely. Special plasma sensor equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 ...
New spacecraft data from Pioneer, Voyager and Juno show that Jupiter is slightly smaller and more flattened than earlier estimates, refining the planet’s measured size and shape.