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Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter

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.

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Recorded on Voyager 2

  1. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
  2. Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
  3. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
  4. Voyager 2 launches
  5. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
  6. Active volcanism found on Io
  7. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
  8. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
  9. Voyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
  10. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
  11. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
  12. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
  13. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
  14. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
  15. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
  16. Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
  17. Voyager 2 crosses the heliopause at 119 AU
  18. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
  19. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2

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