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Posted by Bruce Betts on 2012/04/19 11:00 CDT | 7 comments
With the latest piece of the puzzle just published in a scientific journal, a solar system mystery that has perplexed people for more than 20 years has been solved, truly thanks to the support of Planetary Society members.
Blast from the past: Pioneer 10 and 11 pictures of Jupiter
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/09/07 02:06 CDT
Here's a few pretty pictures that were recently dusted off by Ted Stryk. Pioneer 10 and 11 passed by Jupiter on December 4, 1973, and December 3, 1974, respectively. Here are three pictures from those two encounters, in versions newly processed by Ted from scanned photographic prints found during a research trip to NASA's Ames Research Center.
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