Exploring Saturn: The Pioneer 11 Mission Pioneer 11 made history as the first spacecraft to explore Saturn up close, launching in 1971 and revealing unprecedented details about the ringed giant. This trailblazing mission provided vital insights into Saturn’s atmosphere, rings, and moons, paving the way for future explorations. Now on a path that will take it out of the solar system, Pioneer 11 remains one of only five spacecraft on such a journey. Although it sent its final transmission nearly 2

Planet Jupiter Flyby: Perijove 11 | NASA Juno Mission FriendsofNASA.org: Here comes planet Jupiter. NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its highly elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. This video is from perijove 11 in early 2018, the eleventh time Juno passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. This time-lapse, color-enhanced video covers about four hours and morphs between 36 JunoCam images. The video begins with Jupiter rising as Juno approaches from th