Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter

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1. Story
2. Four months after its twin, Voyager 2 passed through the Jupiter system on the trajectory that would take it to Saturn and, if the spacecraft survived, beyond. The four-month interval between the two encounters turned a snapshot into a time series: the same storms, the same volcanic surfaces and the same magnetospheric structures were observed twice with a known separation.
3. Knowledge
4. Voyager 2
5. Jupiter
6. Io
7. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
8. Connections
9. Voyager 2
10. Jupiter
11. Io
12. Voyager 1
13. The Grand Tour alignment
14. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
15. DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
16. Gravity assist
17. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
18. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
19. Jupiter
20. Neptune
21. Saturn
22. Uranus
23. Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS)
24. Titan IIIE-Centaur
25. Edward C. Stone
26. The Voyager Golden Record
27. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
28. Voyager 2 launches
29. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
30. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
31. Voyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
32. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
33. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
34. Voyager 2 crosses the heliopause at 119 AU
35. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
36. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2
37. Voyager 1
38. Voyager 2
39. Io
40. The Grand Tour alignment
41. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
42. Active volcanism found on Io
43. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
44. Pioneer 10
45. Pioneer 11
46. Galileo
47. Cassini–Huygens
48. New Horizons
49. Juno
50. Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
51. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
52. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
53. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
54. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
55. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
56. Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
57. Jupiter
58. Active volcanism found on Io
59. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
60. Evidence
61. The encounter dates and principal findings at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, including the Jovian ring, the resolved ring structure at Saturn, the tilted and offset Uranian magnetic field and the newly found moons at both ice giants. V55 verification basis: THE PAGES WERE NOT REACHED — science.nasa.gov is blocked by this session's egress proxy and the search budget was exhausted. Everything attributed here is standard mission record from general knowledge; a curator must confirm each encounter date and each count of newly discovered moons against NASA's own pages.