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Viking 1-2
12/02/1975
Orbiting Mars to take pictures of the surface and measure the atmosphere. We found that mars has volcanoes and mountains.
Voyager 1-2
12/01/1977
Go to Jupiter and Saturn to be outside of our own solar system. Observe both planets and the 40 moons of them. Also check the magnetic field.
Magellan
12/20/1989
Sent to Venus to collect pictures. Approximately 800 years old. It has lava flowing at high rates and exploding volcanoes
Galileo
12/06/1989
Traveled to Jupiter’s orbit. Studies the solar system and the moon of Jupiter. The moon of Jupiter, Europa, has icy surface and each pit is about 10 kilometers across.
Mars Global Surveyor
12/04/1996
Traveled to Mars and circled in a polar orbit around Mars every 2 hours. Looked for sign of past life and water, polar caps on mars shrink and grow between martian summer.