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Jupiter

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The first target of both spacecraft and the gravitational engine of the whole tour: massive enough that a single close pass could add enough energy to reach Saturn, and by extension everything beyond it. Voyager 1 passed on 5 March 1979 and Voyager 2 on 9 July 1979, four months apart, which meant the same system was observed twice with a known interval — long enough to see storms evolve and volcanic surfaces change. Between them the encounters found a faint ring around the planet, resolved the Great Red Spot as a circulating storm system rather than a marking, and characterised the magnetosphere, the largest structure in the solar system after the heliosphere itself. Not a place on Earth.

A node is not a place. Drawing it on a map would assert something about the world that no stored fact supports.

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