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...Bible and Pericles is never mentioned at all." Biblical Scholar Asimov characteristically mentions all: history, biography, geography, archaeology and cross-culture myths that are the roots if not the artistic and spiritual blossoms of the Good Book. The result is another testament to the author's Jovian powers of assimilation and explication...
...resolution than the devices carried by Pioneers 10 and 11, which flew by Jupiter in 1973 and 1974, and returned color photographs to earth. After approaching as close as 280,000 km (174,000 miles) of Jupiter's upper atmosphere, Voyager 1 will be catapulted by the powerful Jovian gravity toward Saturn, which it will not reach until 1981. Following closely behind, Voyager 2 may be sent even farther afield, to fly by Uranus in 1986 and Neptune...
...before the little ship was boosted along by Jovian gravity on a flight path that will eventually carry it out of the solar system, it gathered more information about Jupiter than had all astronomers since Galileo first pointed his crude telescope at the planet more than three centuries ago. Now, after a lengthy study of Pioneer's wealth of data-including 80 photographs-scientists have put together a totally new image of the king of planets...
...hardly seems hospitable to life. Its atmosphere is apparently ravaged, not only by great bolts of lightning but also by winds with velocities of more than 300 m.p.h. In fact, Jupiter's great red spot, long a puzzle to astronomers, could be the vortex of a violent Jovian storm...
...space agency's approval of a mission to Saturn will require a course change that will send the craft whipping by Jupiter at a distance of only 26,000 miles. Accelerated by Jovian gravity, Pioneer 11 will then be flung across the solar system for a rendezvous with Saturn in September 1979. The new flight plan was decided upon only after careful analysis of Pioneer 10's performance last December; it came within 81,000 miles of Jupiter's cloudtops and was subjected to an intense bombardment of charged particles from Jupiter's radiation belts. Pioneer...