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...flashed onto the screen, the tension eased. After a journey of 6½ years, the small unmanned Pioneer 11 spacecraft was fast approaching Saturn, whose image was being sent back with more clarity than could be obtained by any earth-bound telescope. One especially intriguing view, taken by the robot from a distance of 3.2 million km (2 million miles), showed both the giant ringed planet, a huge gaseous sphere 815 times larger than earth, and its major moon, Titan, where scientists have not entirely given up hope of finding evidence of primitive life forms. Pioneer also radioed data...
...took nearly 6½ years and a journey of 2 billion miles, but NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft is also on the verge of making history. On Saturday, Sept. 1, the 260-kg (570-lb.) robot will become the first envoy from earth to reconnoiter Saturn, passing within 21,300 km (13,300 miles) of the solar system's second largest planet. If the flyby goes as planned, Pioneer 11 will not only send back 50 colored closeups of the great ringed gaseous sphere but provide valuable data on its interior structure, temperature, density and magnetic field...
Well, if too many people hear that the crooked stamps come not from a dedicated volunteer's weary hand but from a dedicated robot, the purpose of the exercise is defeated. Later, Ratigan reconsidered. He declared that the machine did not exist, but did concede that the stamps are deliberately pasted on askew. That personal touch...
...March another unmanned space craft called Voyager 1, traveling still farther afield, sped past giant Jupiter and its moons. From half a billion miles away, the computer-controlled robot radioed starlingly clear color pictures of the banded Jlanet and its satellites, including briliantly hued closeups of the stormy Jovian Great Red Spot that would not look out of place in a gallery of modern art. It also sent back new data about Jupiter's Jovian radiation fields and found a "hot spot" of plasma, whose temperatures reach 300 million to 400 million degrees C. It even discovered a thin...
...robot swept around Jupiter itself, coming within 404,000 miles of the cloud tops, the J.P.L. controllers fired Voyager 2's small thruster engines for 76 minutes, a "slow burn" that changed its speed slightly. Thus, after sailing by its next target, Saturn, in August 1981, Voyager 2 will continue on to Uranus, more than 1.6 billion miles from earth. It will reach Uranus 4½ years later, in January 1986. Leaving Jupiter, Voyager took an edge-on look at the planet's ring, which emerged on J.P.L. TV screens as a glow-'ng white neon-like...