JUPITER - A COLOSSAL ADVENTURE - Herbert W Armstrong - May 1979

Herbert W Armstrong

It was a hugely successful voyage of discovery; an intimate peek at an awesome, beautiful, yet forbidding world; a mini solar system in our own celestial backyard. From nearly half a billion miles away, the breathtakingly spectacular color photos of Jupiter and its moons provided new insights- and raised some puzzling questions-about a giant planet that, at 1,300 times the volume of Earth, is almost another star. Voyager I, launched from Cape Canaveral in September 1977, journeyed for 18 months and 400 million miles before threading its way past Jupiter and its 13 known moons. At one point the 1,800-pound spacecraft came within 173,000 miles of the solar system's largest planet. Equipped with eleven different scientific instruments plus special cameras, Voyager found Jupiter to be sizzling with powerful radiation and covered with colorful and violently turbulent clouds. Over a dozen orange and white bands were seen rotating in the ever-changing atmosphere. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library