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PIA18173: Ulysses at Jupiter
An artist's impression of Ulysses spacecraft at Jupiter. Ulysses used Jupiter's powerful gravity to hurl it out of the Plane of the Ecliptic (where most planets and satellites orbit) so it could study the polar regions of the Sun.
 Mission:  Ulysses 
 Product Size:  1191 x 849 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  ESA/NASA 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA18173.tif (3.035 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA18173.jpg (148.7 kB)  

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An artist's impression of the Ulysses spacecraft at Jupiter. Ulysses used Jupiter's powerful gravity to hurl it out of the Plane of the Ecliptic (where most planets and satellites orbit) so it could study the polar regions of the Sun.

Image Credit:
ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2004-02-05