30th Anniversary Voyager 2 at Europa, a hint of things to come |
30th Anniversary Voyager 2 at Europa, a hint of things to come |
Apr 9 2009, 01:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: 6-March 07 From: houston, texas Member No.: 1828 |
It seems to be a season of anniversaries over the next year or so.
20 years since Voyager 2 at Neptune (see my posting there), 30 yrs since Voyager 1 at Io, 30 since Voyager 2 at Europa, 30 years since VEJUR at . . . . well never mind! plus all the Galileo 400th commemorations (I will have more on that next week). I thought it would be a good time to start a thread on this one, which occurred on a tuesday morning in July 1979. Although the images had been taken on July 9, they were recorded for playback the next day. I was a mere summer intern in those days and was attending the morning briefing along with the rest of the Sci Support Team of which i was a member. Linda Horn and Ellis Miner were my gurus that wonderful summer. Playback was scheduled for sometime between 8 and 9, as i recall, and I can still remember looking up at the monitor as the first high resolution images ever seen of Europa first appeared. Wonderful, even tho only 2 kilometers in resolution. Little did I know where it would lead me . . . Here is a restored version of one of the two mosaics returned that day. They hint at some of the exotic things that Galileo later discovered. cheers paul -------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com; http://www.youtube.com/galsat400; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/schenk/ |
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May 24 2013, 12:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Excellent images!
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