A spacecraft starts out in an eastward-moving circular orbit around Jupiter.  It then burns its engines and increases its speed beyond Jupiter's escape speed - and it does this while it's over Jupiter's night hemisphere.  Which of the following might be its destination?     Uranus     the Sun     Mars     Earth

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