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The craft travelled more than 4.6 billion kilometres, about the equivalent of seven times the distance between Earth and Jupiter. Galileo returned 30 gigabytes of data, including 14,000 pictures.

This schematic cutaway view shows the geometry of Jupiter in relation to its rings and the small inner satellites, which are the source of the dust that forms the rings.

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