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Paul Anderson
Nov 18, 1986, 12:55:42 PM11/18/86
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A statement in the last SPACE Digest made me think of something interesting:
Has there been any effort to have either Voyager I or Voyager II take a
picture of one or more planets, or of the solar system, as they are flying
away from it, looking back at it? Of particular interest would be pictures
of Pluto; even though these spacecraft may be a long way away from it, they
still might be closer to it than we are here.
Anybody know anything about this?
Paul Anderson
anderson@nrl-csr
Has there been any effort to have either Voyager I or Voyager II take a
picture of one or more planets, or of the solar system, as they are flying
away from it, looking back at it? Of particular interest would be pictures
of Pluto; even though these spacecraft may be a long way away from it, they
still might be closer to it than we are here.
Anybody know anything about this?
Paul Anderson
anderson@nrl-csr
and...@alberta.uucp
Nov 18, 1986, 6:48:15 PM11/18/86
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In article <861118175...@nrl-csr.ARPA> ande...@NRL-CSR.ARPA (Paul Anderson) writes:
>Has there been any effort to have either Voyager I or Voyager II take a
>picture of one or more planets, or of the solar system, as they are flying
>away from it, looking back at it? Of particular interest would be pictures
>of Pluto; even though these spacecraft may be a long way away from it, they
>still might be closer to it than we are here.
>Anybody know anything about this?
>Paul Anderson
>anderson@nrl-csr
>Has there been any effort to have either Voyager I or Voyager II take a
>picture of one or more planets, or of the solar system, as they are flying
>away from it, looking back at it? Of particular interest would be pictures
>of Pluto; even though these spacecraft may be a long way away from it, they
>still might be closer to it than we are here.
>Anybody know anything about this?
>Paul Anderson
>anderson@nrl-csr
The Voyagers have taken departing shots of every planet they went by,
including the Earth and Moon (in the same frame, a first!). Pluto is
just a *bit* too far away for it to appear any larger than it does from
Earth, remember the Voyager's cameras are < 8 (?) inches in diameter,
and Pluto will still be some A.U.'s away at 'closest approach'. I still
think the shots of a cresent Saturn were the most remarkable.
--
Andrew Folkins ...ihnp4!alberta!andrew
The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Arthur C. Clarke's Law :
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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