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Thanks so much for posting this footage on YouTube, DoctorClu...never even knew about "Neptune All Night"! I was working two jobs in 1989, had to wait an eternity for the magazines to post pics...

PBS definitely did the Voyagers right, though; shouldn't be surprised. On 12 Nov 1980, my high-school physics teacher & I sat in a pizza parlor that had a projection big-screen TV & watched V1's Saturn encounter while killing a couple of pitchers...we figured we'd had enough beer once we saw the first images of the F-ring...

[deglr6328]

DoctorClu is to be worshipped for his youtube efforts! These things are part of history and the chances of PBS ever re-airing or even just selling them on tape is exactly ZERO (too busy with Deepak Chopra woo-woo nonsense marathons during pledge drives these days).

I guess I'm fairly happy with PBS's stuff. NOVA used to be sooo much better back in the 80's though; no endless sequences of useless do-daa computer graphics that convey no useful ideas or concepts to the viewer, just information packed science reporting! I would LOVE to watch the show from 1979 called "The End Of The Rainbow" on nuclear fusion power again. Sadly virtually all shows from the 80's are long gone, not for sale anywhere and not even to be found in libraries at all anymore.

[Ian R]

Here's my collection of various NASA videos and animations, which I have collated from a variety of different sources:

Pioneer 11 Encounter with Saturn in 1979.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=82...59931&hl=en

Voyager 1 Flyby of Jupiter in 1979.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...45219&hl=en

Voyager 1 Flyby of Saturn in 1980.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=54...08089&hl=en

Voyager 2 Encounter with Jupiter in 1979.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=18...95435&hl=en

Voyager 2 Flyby of Saturn in 1981.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=12...87981&hl=en

Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus in 1986.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=17...72214&hl=en

Voyager 2 Encounter with Neptune in 1989.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...44154&hl=en

Ice Volcanoes on Triton, as imaged by Voyager 2 in 1989.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2...09184&hl=en

Galileo Orbital Tour of Jupiter and its Moons.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...43738&hl=en

I think the Jim Blinn animations are truly brilliant, despite the dated graphics. Modern computer visualisations (such as those for the Cassini mission) are prettier, but far less dynamic.

Ian.

[Ian R]

Tectonic Activity on Neptune's Moon Triton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy2iscggebI

[Ian R]

I've posted some (hopefully) higher quality versions of the Voyager and Pioneer animations to YouTube:

Pioneer 11 Flyby Animation - Saturn and Titan (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qj9jMkbwrY

Voyager 1 flyby Animation - Saturn and Moons (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd9TOvFelFg

Voyager 2 Flyby of Saturn (1981) Official NASA Animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQk7AFe13CY

Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus (1986) Official NASA animations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrKQaDupdWQ

Voyager 2 flyby Animation - Neptune and Triton (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdBOZWB3iAI

Voyager 2 flyby Animation - Neptune and Triton (1989) - REDUX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUihD47ajo

Highlights of Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune and Triton (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWzEI4gacZc

[elakdawalla]

Awesome, Ian. I don't suppose you have one for Voyager 1's encounter with Jupiter? I am looking for one for a post this afternoon. If you don't have it, I'll just drop in your Jupiter rotation animation from Voyager 1, which will give us a nice "before modern processing" look to compare with Bjorn's 100-frame "after" animation

[Ian R]

Emily,

Here's an old one I cobbled together from various sources, and then uploaded to the (often forgotten) Google Video site:

Voyager 1 Flyby of Jupiter in 1979
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-870102537039645219#

If that's not really good enough for your purposes, then please feel free to use any of the other videos I posted earlier!

Reason for edit: fixed link

[elakdawalla]

Perfectly retro, thanks! Your new versions are great resources, but I'm glad we still have the original visualizations that people saw in the '70s available also.

(Your first link was malformed but I was able to track it down on Google Video & fixed the link in your post)

[Ian R]

Whoops- thanks for fixing the link!

I should also mention that if you want an example of "before modern processing", then you may want to use this archive video instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BosvP4CLz9o

Here's an excerpt from the most up-to-date iteration of my version of the same approach movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylesfYhbwPY

[hendric]

Ian,
Wow, it's like a whole new probe is on it's way to Jupiter. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Edit: Have you just done frames without the moons so far?

[eoincampbell]

This is absolutely classic stuff... Thanks Ian, for producing and sharing!

[4th rock from th...]

Great stuff!

[Ian R]

Ian,
Wow, it's like a whole new probe is on it's way to Jupiter. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Edit: Have you just done frames without the moons so far?

Hi Richard,

I've just uploaded the latest version of the approach movie to YouTube:

Voyager 1 Jupiter Approach Movie - October 2010 Draft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7imqLyR_u6s&fmt=22

This covers a period of 95 hours, and features appearances from Ganymede, Europa and Io (twice!), in addition to the shadows of all three moons. Due to the way I've processed this movie, the moons appear to 'disappear' once they move away from Jupiter, but I shall be attempting to fix that in the next iteration of the sequence...