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  • Planets Visited by Spacecraft: A Comprehensive Overview
    Here are the planets that have been visited by spacecraft, along with some notable missions:

    Inner Solar System:

    * Mercury:

    * Mariner 10 (flyby)

    * MESSENGER (orbiter)

    * Venus:

    * Mariner 2 (flyby)

    * Venera series (landers)

    * Magellan (orbiter)

    * Akatsuki (orbiter)

    * Earth: (Obviously!) Many, many missions, including the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, and numerous satellites.

    * Mars:

    * Mariner 4 (flyby)

    * Viking 1 and 2 (landers)

    * Mars Pathfinder (lander with rover)

    * Spirit and Opportunity rovers

    * Curiosity rover

    * Perseverance rover

    * InSight lander

    * Numerous orbiters (e.g., Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter)

    Outer Solar System:

    * Jupiter:

    * Pioneer 10 and 11 (flybys)

    * Voyager 1 and 2 (flybys)

    * Ulysses (flyby)

    * Galileo (orbiter and probe)

    * Juno (orbiter)

    * Saturn:

    * Pioneer 11 (flyby)

    * Voyager 1 and 2 (flybys)

    * Cassini (orbiter and probe)

    * Uranus:

    * Voyager 2 (flyby)

    * Neptune:

    * Voyager 2 (flyby)

    Other notable missions:

    * Pluto:

    * New Horizons (flyby)

    * Asteroids: Many missions have flown by or landed on asteroids, including:

    * Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 (returned samples)

    * Dawn (orbiter of Vesta and Ceres)

    Future Missions:

    * There are numerous planned missions to explore more of our solar system, including:

    * Europa Clipper (Jupiter's moon Europa)

    * Dragonfly (Saturn's moon Titan)

    * JUICE (Jupiter's moons)

    * A mission to Venus (potential landing)

    This list is not exhaustive, and many other spacecraft have flown by or orbited these planets.

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