Stellar cartography notes to accompany the star charts. Emphasis on [Voyager].

	JUPITER and SATURN

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That Jupiter and Saturn are Class-J planets is noted in [DS9: Starship Down]. Jupiter is the fifth world in the Sol System, a gas giant planet. Jupiter has an equatorial diameter of 142,700 kilometres, and it orbits its sun at about 778 million kilometres. The refit Starship Enterprise NCC-1701 flew past Jupiter on its way to intercept V'Ger, [Star Trek I: The Motion Picture]. Jupiter Station is a Starfleet facility orbiting Jupiter. Dr Lewis Zimmerman lives almost permanently at Jupiter Station, and works in its Holoprogramming Center. He is the scientific genius who, as noted in [#6 The Cloud] and [#46 The Swarm], programmed the Emergency Medical Hologram Mark 1 and Mark 2 and assigned to program the Long-term Medical Hologram (ref. [#DS9: Dr Bashir, I Presume?]) (it is a Mark 1 who serves on USS Voyager). A Mark 2 serves on USS Prometheus, [#82 Message In A Bottle]. Tuvok was temporarily stationed at the Jupiter Station sometime prior to 2371. While there he kept in contact with Kathryn Janeway through written letters, [#40 Tuvix]. Jupiter Outpost 92 is a Federation station near the fifth planet of the Sol system, and the first outpost to report the entrance of the Borg ship into that system during the Borg offensive of 2367, [TNG: The Best of Both Worlds].

Jupiter Station, orbiting the planet Jupiter [#144 Life Line]

Saturn, the sixth planet in the Sol system, is a gas giant with a mass 95 times that of Earth and is noted for its spectacular system of rings. It has a diameter of some 120,800 kilometres, and orbits the sun known as Sol at a mean distance of 1.4 billion kilometres. More on jovian planets at BEHIND-THE-SCENES: REAL SCIENCE WITH ANDRE BORMANIS: Jovian Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Pioneer 10, a robotic space probe launched from Earth in 1972 by the United States of America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), studied the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and was the first human-made object to leave Earth's solar system. The probe drifted for centuries in the interstellar void until destroyed in 2287 by a Klingon bird-of-prey, [Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]. The first human spaceflight to Saturn took place in the early 21st century, [TOS: Tomorrow is Yesterday]. The Starfleet Academy Flight Range is located in a proximal orbit of Saturn, [TNG: The First Duty]. One of Geordi La Forge's first Starfleet assignments was as shuttle pilot for the Jovian run between Jupiter and Saturn, [TNG: Chain of Command]. Information about La Forge, seen in an unrealised timeline in [#100 Timeless], is at Geordi La Forge Index.

In [#50 and #51 Future's End], Tom Paris meets and befriends an inhabitant of 1996 Los Angeles on Earth.

Paris: "So, why'd you become an astronomer?" Rain Robinson: "My brother had a telescope, a little refractor. You could barely see in the tree house next door actually but it was enough. It was enough to see the rings of Saturn. I remember, I remember I used to think that they looked like jewels from a pirate's treasure. All I ever wanted since then was to reach up and touch them."