Pioneer Saturn Encounter
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Pioneer Saturn Encounter gathers a selection of the pictures returned by Pioneer 11 of Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. The contents list names, among others, Saturn Images and Science Highlights.
The foreword says the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, launched in 1972 and 1973, respectively, made the first crossings of the asteroid belt and were the first to encounter Jupiter and its intense radiation belts. The foreword says Pioneer 11's trajectory, bent into a hairpin curve by Jupiter's powerful gravitational field, allowed it to recross the solar system to make the first flyby of Saturn, almost a billion miles from Earth, where it came within 13,300 miles of the cloud tops. The introduction says Voyager 1 passed by Jupiter in March 1979 and will reach Saturn in November 1980. The text says the region between the A-ring and the F-ring has been tentatively named the Pioneer Division.
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