Jupiter Five

"Jupiter Five"
Short story by Arthur C. Clarke
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Publication
Published inIf
Publication dateMay 1953

"Jupiter Five" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in the magazine If in May 1953. It reappeared in Clarke's collection of short stories in 1956, and concerns the detection and exploration of an ancient spaceship from outside the Solar System.