History of Jupiter-Renee Bartelt, Exzel Roman

By reneebartelt
  • Galileo finds Jupiter's 4 moons

    Galileo finds Jupiter's 4 moons

    This demonstrated that Earth was not the center of the universe.
  • Giovanni Cassini used his telescope to discover spots and bands across the surface of Jupiter

    Giovanni Cassini used his telescope to discover spots and bands across the surface of Jupiter

    He was able to estimate the planet's rotational period. He is thought to be the first to observe the Great Red Spot.
  • E.E. Barnard observed a 5th satellite of Jupiter

    E.E. Barnard observed a 5th satellite of Jupiter

    This was the last planetary moon to be discovered directly by visual observation.
  • Jupiter's moon Amalthea is discovered

    Jupiter's moon Amalthea is discovered

    Amalthea is the largest of the inner stellites of Jupiter, and is thought to contain water, ice, and unknown amounts of other materials.
  • Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin detected bursts of radio signals coming from Jupiter

    Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin detected bursts of radio signals coming from Jupiter

    The period of these bursts matched the rotation of the planet, and they were also able to use this information to refine the rotation rate.
  • Jupiter was first visited by Pioneer 10

    Jupiter was first visited by Pioneer 10

    Pioneer 10 served as a scout for the Voyager spacecrafts, showing that the radiation was tolerable and mapping out the main characteristics of the planet.
  • US Voyager I obtained the first image of Jupiter's rings

    US Voyager I obtained the first image of Jupiter's rings

    A flattening main ring and an inner cloudlike ring are made up of small, dark parts. A third ring is actually 3 rings of microscopic debris from 3 small moons.
  • Voyager II makes it's closest approach to Jupiter

    Voyager II makes it's closest approach to Jupiter

    Durning this time, the probe spotted volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io.
  • The Ulysses solar probe flies past Jupiter's north pole

    The Ulysses solar probe flies past Jupiter's north pole

    Jupiter's gravity bent the spacecraft's flightpath down and away from the eliptical plane, placing it into a final orbit around the Sun's north and south poles.
  • Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter

    Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter

    The effects were clearly visible even with amature telescopes. The debris from the collision was visible for nearly a year after.
  • NASA's Galileo spacecraft dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere

    NASA's Galileo spacecraft dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere

    The Galileo spacecraft collected the first direct measurements of the atmospere.
  • Images of Jupiter's moon, Europa, surface

    Images of Jupiter's moon, Europa, surface

    The pictures confirm the 1996 revealed surface of massive icebergs floating in an ocean.
  • Cassini probe, en route to Saturn, flew by Jupiter

    Cassini probe, en route to Saturn, flew by Jupiter

    Cassini provided some of the highest-resolution images ever made of the planet.
  • New Horizons flies by Jupiter

    New Horizons flies by Jupiter

    The encounter was used as a general test of New Horizons' scientific abilities, returning data about Jupiter's atmosphere, moons, and magnetosphere.
  • Spacecraft Juno will reach Jupiter

    Spacecraft Juno will reach Jupiter

    Juno will provide new information to help us understand how, when, and where Jupiter formed.