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▲ Jupiter with satellites
seen from Voyager. Europa
is to the right, Io is in transit
across Jupiter’s disk, and
Callisto is just visible at
bottom left. The magnetosphere of
Jupiter. Solar wind particles
approaching from the left
collide with the structurally
complex magnetosphere.
Inside the bow shock lies
the magnetopause. The
whole magnetically active
region is enveloped by
the ‘magnetosheath’.▲Spacecraft to Jupiter.
Pioneer 10, top, launched
2 March 1972, passed
Jupiter on 3 December 1973
at 132,000 km (82,500 miles).
Voyager 2, above, launched
20 August 1977, made
passes of Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune.▼ Jupiter’s ring. This
picture of the western
portion of Jupiter’s main
ring was made by the Galileo
spacecraft on 9 November
1996.C Atl of Univ Phil'03stp 2/4/03 3:09 pm Page 99