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VOYAGER AT JUPITER


Credit NASA 
Trajectories of Voyager probes near Jupiter 

Arriving in the Jovian system, Voyager made ​​a wealth of data. They discovered:
- a ring around Jupiter 
- the movements of the upper atmosphere of Jupiter 
- aurora Borealis above Jupiter 
- storms causing huge lightning 
- very active volcanoes on the satellite Io  
- the icy nature of the satellite Europa.

Credit : NASA
Jupiter and Ganymede seen by Voyager 40 million km 24 January 1979