No, humans have never been to Jupiter; all exploration has been done by unmanned robotic spacecraft due to the extreme radiation, lack of solid surface, and immense distance, with missions like NASA's Juno currently orbiting and studying the gas giant and its moons, as sending humans is currently technologically impossible.
Jupiter has no solid surface on which to land, as there is a smooth transition between the planet's atmosphere and its fluid interior. Any probes descending into the atmosphere are eventually crushed by the immense pressures within Jupiter.
Without Jupiter, we wouldn't exist. Gas giant saved Earth from plunging into the Sun, say scientists. Jupiter is responsible for saving Earth from a fiery death early in the Solar System's history, and may also explain a longstanding mystery about the formation of meteorites.
Our solar system's largest planet was struck by an asteroid or a comet on March 17, and an amateur astronomer in Ireland was ready with a telescope and camera.
For Jupiter, the smell would depend on where you were in the atmosphere. Some regions have high concentrations of ammonia (which smells like cleaning fluid), others hydrogen sulphide (eggs) and others hydrogen cyanide (bitter almonds).
Once every 176 years, the giant planets on the outer reaches of the solar system all gather on one side of the sun, and such a configuration was due to occur in the late 1970s.
Solar eclipse of August 2, 2027. The solar eclipse of August 2, 2027, also known as the Eclipse of the Century, is an upcoming total solar eclipse that will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, August 2, 2027, with a magnitude of 1.079.
🔴 MARCH 3, 2026 — THE BLOOD MOON 🔴 Something truly rare is coming to the night sky. On March 3, 2026, the Moon will slip into Earth's shadow and transform into a deep copper-red glow, creating a breathtaking Total Lunar Eclipse 🌕🔥 For nearly one magical hour, the sky will put on a show you won't want to miss.
Every 12 years or so, you go through a Jupiter return. Your Jupiter return happens when Jupiter in the sky reenters the sign it was in when you were born. Because this happens every 12 years or so, we can look at what growth occurred in our life around the ages of 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, etc.
July 16–22, 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plowed into Jupiter. What an amazing event! Earth-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes watched it, but the impact site was just over the horizon from our point of view. Luckily the Galileo spacecraft, already on its way to Jupiter, was able to see the fireball explosions!
Because the Milky Way and its closest neighbors are separated by millions of light-years, any such venture would also require millions of years based on our current understanding of physics. Thus, intergalactic travel is impossible within the human lifetime.
Where are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 Now? Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached interstellar space and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos.
In interstellar space there is a vast amount of nothing, in intergalactic space there is an absurd amount of nothing. Theoretically, and mathematically, Voyager has a very high probability of never hitting anything large enough to skew its trajectory, even as Time approaches infinity.
The closest known approach of Apophis will occur on April 13, 2029, at 21:46 UT, when Apophis will pass Earth at a distance of about 31,600 kilometres (19,600 mi) above the surface.
While 2025 SC79 will make no close approaches to Earth for the foreseeable future, finding hidden asteroids is essential for protecting our planet, Sheppard emphasized in the statement. "The most dangerous asteroids are the most difficult to detect," Sheppard said.
Jupiter will turn retrograde in one week, on November 11th, 2025, from an especially impactful place in the zodiac, and the retrograde period will last until March 11th, 2026.