Between
November 2003 and April 2004, the Ulysses spacecraft will
again be in the proximity of Jupiter creating an opportunity
for more in-situ and correlated remote-sensing observations.
The first encounter in February 1992 took place at distance
of closest approach of 6 Jupiter radii (Rj) and changed
the inclination of the Ulysses trajectory so that it would
pass above the sun's polar regions. Twelve years later,
Jupiter has returned to near its previous location and Ulysses
is again approaching aphelion near the orbit of Jupiter
at 5.3 AU. This encounter is at much larger distances and
Ulysses does not enter, but remains upstream of, the Jovian
magnetosphere.
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