Jupiter
Jupiter and
Earth
Compared
Pioneer 10
and 11 were
first to
Jupiter, 1973
Pioneer 10-11
Voyager
I-II
Galileo
Galileo’s Atmospheric Probe
Io, Europa and Jupiter
The Great Red Spot
Jupiter is Hot Inside
Jupiter Has a Very Thin Ring
The Moons of
Jupiter:
Callisto
Europa
Ganymede
Io
Callisto
This is what
everyone expected
Jupiter’s moons to
look like.
This was about the
last thing that
looked like we
expected it to.
Callisto:
Valhalla
Basin
Ganymede:
Largest
Moon in the
Solar
System
Europa
Europa Has a Thin Icy Crust
Unexpected Io
An Eruption on Io
Loki’s Molten Sulfur Lake
Amalthea
The Impact of Comet
Schumacher-Levy
For the first time ever, in 1994 we
witnessed the impact of a comet with
a planet.
Comet
Schumacher
-Levy
Impact!
A still-hot
impact site
rotates into
view
(infrared
view)
Impact as Seen by Galileo