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Jupiter after Pioneer: a progress report

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“We now come to a much more magnificent planet, Jupiter, the largest of them all …” So wrote Sir John Herschel in A Treatise on Astronomy1. Now, after a decade in which space programmes have concentrated on the inner planets, a spacecraft has been sent to Jupiter. This article describes how the data sent back are changing our ideas about the planet.

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McDonough, T. Jupiter after Pioneer: a progress report. Nature 251, 17–20 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251017a0

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