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Voyager 1's performance was the equal of the marvels it found. Commanded only by its own computers, the robot soared past the mysterious moon Titan, approaching to within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of its shrouded surface. Gathering ever more speed under the tug of Saturnian gravity, it plunged downward toward the outer edge of Saturn's rings, swirling bits of cosmic debris. Reaching a peak velocity of 91,000 km (56,600 miles) per hour, Voyager skirted within 124,240 km (77,200 miles) of the planet's banded cloud tops for its nearest...
...while its instruments and television cameras blinked away furiously, almost as if they had a life of their own. So large did Saturn loom in the robot's probing electronic eyes that they could capture only small swatches of the planet's stormy atmosphere. The spacecraft executed its maneuvers with astonishing precision - near the climax of its long journey it was only 19 km (12 miles) off course. Finally, Voyager climbed upward, once again crossing just outside Saturn's rings. Casting backward glances with its cameras and instruments, it soared above the ecliptic - the plane formed...
...shuttle's problems are also a source of grief to planners of another major scientific effort: the placing in orbit around earth of a ten-ton, 96-in. space telescope. Scanning the heavens above the obscuring atmosphere, and radioing back its findings, the robot telescope could greatly extend astronomy's observable universe, allowing stargazers to see farther and deeper into space. The telescope might even be able to pick out the faint traces of planets orbiting nearby stars...
...urge to explain, explicate, examine, describe, capture, evoke, demythify, demystify, dismantle and put together again a university has obsessed others, with unspectacular results. Recognizing this vacuum, a handful of students has taken it upon itself to present the machinery inside the Harvard robot. Humorously. Entertainingly. Unfrivolously...
Since August the robot has been performing its magic on Saturn. Pictures already transmitted by Voyager show light and dark horizontal bands in Saturn's atmosphere as well as ovals and whirls that are apparently great storms. And Saturn's moons, until recently only flecks of light in earthly telescopes, have become clearly distinguishable little orbs...