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30th Anniversary Voyager 2 at Europa, a hint of things to come
DrShank
post Apr 9 2009, 01:31 PM
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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
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owlsyme
post May 30 2022, 06:48 PM
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Here's a gif of Voyager 2's flyby of Europa

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Video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dan3lPxEXZw
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