";s:4:"text";s:3243:" There have been 2 occasions so far that unmanned human-made spacecraft have landed on asteroids: On February 12, 2001 the asteroid Eros was landed on by the USA NEAR Shoemaker mission which was designed as an orbiter but was gently maneuvered into Eros until it lay on the surface. Well, there’s a problem. ... M ost of what scientists know of Jupiter’s moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the mid-to-late 1990s. In fact, a probe was dropped through the clouds of Jupiter by the Galileo spacecraft. It lasted about 150 miles (a tiny fraction of the planet's size) before being destroyed by the conditions it was subjected to. What would we want to know if we landed on Jupiter’s Europa? If We Landed on Europa, What Would We Want to Know? Have humans ever landed on Jupiter? Amazingly, Jupiter’s dense atmosphere slowed the craft to 0.07 miles … If We Landed on Europa, What Would We Want to Know? A new paper lays out the key science questions to answer for any future proposed robotic spacecraft missions to the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. We have also landed things on two moons, namely Luna (our moon) and Titan (Saturn's largest moon), as well as one comet named 9P/Tempel (however the only mission to the surface of 9P/Tempel was deliberately destroyed, and neither it nor any Jupiter probes ever transmitted pictures from the surface).
Wiki User 2011-05-23 13:53:57. Asked in Founding Fathers Has anyone landed on Jupiter? 2000 : Cassini makes its closest approach to Jupiter at a distance of approximately 6.2 million miles (10 million kilometers), taking a highly detailed true color mosaic photo of the gas giant.
We are so used to picturing us humans on Earth's surface (and maybe soon Mars) that when we see a planet like Jupiter, one of the first questions that comes to mind is "Can we stand on it?" While the Galileo Orbiter was designed to orbit and study Jupiter and its moons, the Galileo Probe was released near Jupiter and was sent into the gas giant itself on 7 December 1995. Jupiter is made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with some other trace gases.