Voyager group portrait: Copies of images

[William Higgins]

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California has released unique
"group portrait" images of our solar system. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, sailing
on a course 32 degreees above the ecliptic, took these pictures on 13 February
while it was 3.7 billion miles from the Sun. The portrait consists of a large
64-frame mosaic, which included images of all the planets except Mars, Mercury
and Pluto.

Readers of Space Digest are frequently asking [Hi, Eugene] for copies of
Voyager images. Thanks to friends at JPL I have obtained copies of the six
frames which show planets. I have done a little processing to remove camera
noise. Here they are:

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| JUPITER | EARTH | VENUS | SATURN | URANUS | NEPTUNE |
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Bill Higgins
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HIG...@FNAL.BITNET (William Higgins) <Added.kaR19W...@andrew.cmu.edu> :

| Readers of Space Digest are frequently asking [Hi, Eugene] for copies of
| Voyager images. Thanks to friends at JPL I have obtained copies of the six
| frames which show planets. I have done a little processing to remove camera

| noise. [ ... ]

Perhaps the nicest thing about this mosaic is the lovely way it illustrates
just what "the plane of the ecliptic" really is all about :-)

(Yeah, yeah, I realize V'ger isn't *in* the plane of the ecliptic. Gee,
maybe a previously unsuspected dark mass is acting as a gravitational lens?)