Reference Sites (see also the Solar System overview)

• NASA: General Jupiter resources page; Galileo mission Jupiter page.
• General Information: The Nine Planets page; American Association of Amateur Astronomers Jupiter page; Solarviews.com page; Virtual Journey into the Universe pages; Spaceref's Jupiter Today site.
• Images and Quizzes: JPL pages; Alwyn Botha's Jupiter page.

Jupiter Topics

• Observation: Sky & Telescope guide and transit prediction page.
• Aurorae: International Jupiter Watch page; JPL page on Io footprint auroras.

Moons

• In general: Galileo Project page; The Jupiter Satellite page; Galileo's discovery; S&T JavaScript utility.
• Io: JPL images page; Views of the Solar System page.
• Europa: Animated rotation page.

Past Exploration (Space Exploration and overview pages)

• Galileo: NASA mission launched in Oct 1989; In orbit around Jupiter and its moons from Dec 1995 to Sep 2003, when the spacecraft entered and burned up in Jupiter's atmosphere.
• Europa Orbiter: Originally developed for launch in 2008, and scheduled to orbit Europa in 2010-2012; Has now been shelved.
• Pioneer 10 and 11: 1973-74, now leaving the solar system carrying a plaque.
• Voyager 1 and 2: 1979, also now leaving the solar system.
• Ulysses spacecraft flyby, while on its way to the Sun.

Future Missions

• JIMO: Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, the first of NASA's upcoming fleet of nuclear-powered spacecraft with an ion drive; To be launched in 2011 at the earliest, will reach Jupiter 6-8 years later and orbit, for several months each, the Jovian satellites Callisto, Ganymede and Europa.

References

• D.M. Harland, Jupiter Odyssey: The Story of NASA's Galileo Mission, Springer-Verlag 2000.