Jupiter Millennium Flyby

Jupiter Millennium Flyby, December 30, 2000 - JPL and Caltech Image Mapped Links

Jupiter Millennium Flyby, December 30, 2000

The Cassini spacecraft, on its journey to Saturn, made a flyby of the giant planet Jupiter. The Galileo spacecraft has been exploring Jupiter since 1995. It is unusual in the history of space exploration to have two robotic spacecraft on separate missions, actively observing a planet - other than Earth - at the same time from such close range. Also exciting is that elementary, middle and high school students had the opportunity to participate in this distinctive event by observing Jupiter between November 2000 and February 2001, using ground-based radio antennas through the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Project.

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