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[GregM]

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[edstrick]

I don't know any links, the Pioneer team never did a very good job of publicising their pictures other than the 3 versions of the NASA SP Pioneer book. They never did any real post processing either, after making final versions of most of the pics. I always though there was a lot more they could have done, starting with putting the raw and final versions of the pics on digital tape at the NSSDC.

I always found most interesting that "boiling porridge" of features in the Pioneer 11 pics of Jupiter's polar regions, something we have never seen since nearly as well.

[lyford]

I don't know any links, the Pioneer team never did a very good job of publicising their pictures other than the 3 versions of the NASA SP Pioneer book. 

That book is availabe online here. Chapter 7 has a good description of the imaging process, including comparing raw and corrected pics.

Here's a side by side of the best I could find of Pioneer with a "typical" Voyager shot:
(Apologies to those without broadband or who have seen these before. Please let me know if these images are too large or load too slowly and I will edit them to be links only.)

Pioneer 11 :


Voyager 1 and 2:


Pioneer 11 capture the first detail from the polar view:


Pioneer 11 even caught IO!