Voyager Encounters Jupiter

by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

CONTENTS

[Foreword] 3 [Introduction] 4 [Images of Jupiter and Its Satellites] 6 [The Voyager Mission] 37 [Scientific Highlights] 39 [Jupiter] 39 [Amalthea] 39 [Io] 39 [Europa] 39 [Ganymede] 39 [Callisto] 39 [The Magnetosphere] 40 [Scientific investigations of the Voyager mission] 40

A Titan/Centaur rocket served as the launch vehicle for Voyager and was the last planned use of this type of launch vehicle prior to the era of the Space Transportation System (Shuttle Orbiter).