Jupiter is a gas giant, meaning it doesn't have a solid surface. Any spacecraft attempting to land would simply sink into its atmosphere.
However, several spacecraft have flown by Jupiter and even orbited it, studying the planet and its moons:
* Pioneer 10 & 11: These were the first spacecraft to fly past Jupiter in the early 1970s, providing the first close-up images of the planet.
* Voyager 1 & 2: These spacecraft flew past Jupiter in the late 1970s, taking even more detailed images and discovering new moons.
* Ulysses: This spacecraft flew by Jupiter in the 1990s to study the planet's magnetic field.
* Galileo: This spacecraft orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, sending back a wealth of data about the planet's atmosphere, magnetic field, and moons.
* Juno: This spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, studying the planet's gravity field, magnetic field, and atmosphere.
While no spacecraft has landed on Jupiter, there have been plans and proposals for landing probes on some of Jupiter's moons, which are thought to have solid surfaces.