Mystery Pioneer Image Of Jupiter |
Mystery Pioneer Image Of Jupiter |
Jul 20 2005, 02:02 AM
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This is my first post on this forum, so I thought I'd try and make it interesting
I own a book entitled "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Exploration" (Richard S Lewis, Salamander Books, 1983). It is a 'coffee table' history of space exploration up to that point. One picture on page 203 is . It is an image of the north temperate region of Jupiter allegedly taken by Pioneer 10. What the picture also shows is what appears to be a 'spacecraft' flying across the image from upper left to upper right leaving a bluish exhaust trail. I had planned to include a scan of the image, but my scanner is kaput, so the directions will have to suffice. First, has anyone else seen the picture in question? Second, does anyone have any idea what might have produced this picture (other than a 'spacecraft')? Is there a Pioneer Image archive? |
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Jul 20 2005, 07:29 AM
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I need to take a look at the book -- but this has GOT to be either an electronic flaw in the picture itself, or a simple printing error on that page. Rest assured that if anything that peculiar-looking and real had shown up on any of the Pioneer photos, we would have heard about it by now.
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Jul 20 2005, 07:54 AM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jul 20 2005, 03:29 PM) I need to take a look at the book -- but this has GOT to be either an electronic flaw in the picture itself, or a simple printing error on that page. Rest assured that if anything that peculiar-looking and real had shown up on any of the Pioneer photos, we would have heard about it by now. I'm inclining towards that interpretation myself. There is one other image in the book in the Jupiter section which is described as a computer manipulation of several Voyager images to get a 'pole down' (or up) view of Jupiter. I had a look at the Pioneer Jupiter images in the online copy of Pioneer Odyssey, there are three possible candidates for the image in the book. (here, here and here.) I'm beginning to suspect that these images were 'stiched' together to make the image shown on page 203 and that the 'spacecraft' was added at that time, I'm going to check the picture credits in the book. |
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