Voyager 2 sends back images of Jupiter and its system

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The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Extraterrestrial space travel
Satellites, Probes, Rockets

Dates

Date of occurrence 1979-07-09

Places

United States (Location)

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On the 9th of July, 1979, the space probe

Voyager 2

reached its closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 570,000 km of its cloud tops. Between

Voyager 1

(which reached Jupiter in March 1979) and

Voyager 2

, over 30,000 images of Jupiter and its satellites were sent back to Earth.

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