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 30 2022, 08:58 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10191 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I tried to explain to students how amazing Voyager was but not sure they were convinced. The first time anything like a reasonable survey of the four outer planets was accomplished. When you have the cornucopia of Cassini treasures or even the highly restricted Galileo data set, Voyager looks weak in comparison, but what did we have before it? I still remember the first images coming in from Voyager 1 at Jupiter, Larry Soderblom saying of Io 'This one we've got all figured out', the news conference with the discovery of Io's volcanic plumes. Imagine the audacity of people in 1972 saying they could build something that could fly to Neptune and lay the foundation of outer solar system research the way Voyager did! Nowadays we feel we can do anything if the money can be found but that wasn't true back then.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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