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Paolo

Jan 5 2007, 09:37 AM

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Hi all
I have recently found this nice color image of Pioneer 5, which shows some mysterious blue cylinders on the solar panels, that I have never seen in any other picture. Any idea of what they may be?

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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Jan 6 2007, 03:09 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	I looked at Explorer 6, which closely resembles Pioneer 5, but it does not have those blue cylinders, either. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/explorer_6.jpg http://www1.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/hillge...rer-6_image.jpg http://www1.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/hillge...er-6_cover3.jpg Two more Pioneer 5 images: http://www1.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/hillge...eer-5_image.jpg http://www1.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/hillge...er-5_image2.jpg -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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Paolo Pioneer 5 color picture Jan 5 2007, 09:37 AM

djellison I don't have a CLUE what they are - but I... Jan 5 2007, 09:57 AM

edstrick Without knowing the answer, I strongly suspect mag... Jan 5 2007, 10:09 AM

Paolo QUOTE (edstrick @ Jan 5 2007, 11:09 AM) W... Jan 5 2007, 10:48 AM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (Paolo @ Jan 5 2007, 10:48 AM) The ... Jan 5 2007, 01:06 PM

edstrick I'm inclined to agree. The first spacecraft t... Jan 5 2007, 12:15 PM

djellison this image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e... Jan 5 2007, 01:22 PM

hendric Maybe they are some kind of handle for moving the ... Jan 5 2007, 02:51 PM

Airbag Look like those silicone caulk dispensers to me. ... Jan 5 2007, 05:55 PM

ljk4-1 I looked at Explorer 6, which closely resembles Pi... Jan 6 2007, 03:09 AM

Paolo We all forgot that yesterday was the 50th annivers... Mar 12 2010, 10:12 PM

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