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Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn

Passed within about 43,000 km of the cloud tops — closer than any craft before it — on a course that used the encounter to climb toward Saturn. Dated to the month; archives state the closest approach on 2 and 3 December 1974 in different time conventions. Encounter class: flyby.

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Recorded on Pioneer 11

  1. Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
  2. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
  3. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
  4. Active volcanism found on Io
  5. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
  6. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
  7. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
  8. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
  9. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
  10. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
  11. Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter

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