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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ 30 years ago today

Posted by: Paolo Aug 26 2011, 05:00 PM

Voyager 2 flew by Saturn...
I was 10 years old, already fascinated with everything space, but I remember that event as the one that made me a solar system exploration (later unmanned solar system exploration) fan

Posted by: Paolo Aug 26 2011, 05:27 PM

of course I meant 30 years ago...

Posted by: JohnVV Sep 1 2011, 02:10 AM

I remember going to " Astro-fest " at U of M for Jim Louden's lectures in the Modern Language building

One of the few YOUNG teens there ( 13 in 81 )

Mainly for the slide shows
Then the lowbrows would pull out the 8 and 12 in scopes on the Observatory roof top .

Posted by: ugordan Sep 1 2011, 08:05 AM

Here's a couple of Titan images from Voyager 2 to "celebrate" the anniversary.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan/4835388489 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan/4835889672/

I was pleasantly surprised that applying the same processing as for Cassini gives the pretty familiar Titan color. Save for the massively higher noise levels, of course.