Jupiter has been explored multiple times by multiple space probes, each sent for varying purposes. Some were sent to study the surface, some to study the rings, others to study the magnetic field and so on.
- Pioneer 10. December 3rd 1973.
- Pioneer 11. December 2nd 1974.
- Voyager 1. January 4th to April 13th 1979.
- Voyager 2. April 25th to August 5th 1979.
- Galileo. December 7th 1995 until it malfunctioned on September 22nd 2003.
- Ulysses. February 8th 1992.
- Cassini-Huygens. December 30th 2000.
- New Horizions. January to May 2007. (Was on-route to Pluto, but stopped by Jupiter along the way to study a volcanic anomaly).
Another probe called Juno was launched in August 2011 and will arrive at Jupiter in August 2016.
Jupiter got its name from the link of the Roman Gods, Jupiter, and Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System
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jupiter has not got gas on it it is not like neptune that it has methain on it
Jupiter does not have any life on it. This is because it is unfit for life to live on it.
Jupiter has not got life however mars does.
Jupiter got its name from the Roman God Jupiter, who was equivolent to the Greek god Zeus, lord of the Gods.
The first spacecraft to visit Jupiter was Pioneer 10 in 1973. The craft took the first close up pictures of Jupiter.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter.
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Galileo was probably the first to study Jupiter in detail, with his telescope.
Jupiter got the names by thunder and sky. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zeus is the Greek name for the king of the Gods Jupiter is the Roman name for the king of the Gods
No one has been to Jupiter yet.