Mission
Voyager 2
The only spacecraft to visit all four giant planets — still calling home from interstellar space.
Visited
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Jupiter
More massive than every other planet combined, with a storm older than any nation.
year: 1979 · encounter: flyby
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Uranus
The sideways planet: its axis lies nearly in its orbital plane.
year: 1986 · encounter: flyby
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Neptune
The windiest world in the solar system, found by arithmetic before telescopes.
year: 1989 · encounter: flyby
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Europa
An ice shell over a global ocean holding more water than all of Earth's seas.
year: 1979 · encounter: flyby
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Saturn
The gas giant whose rings would span most of the Earth-Moon distance.
year: 1981 · encounter: flyby