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AC74-9036-62
Dr E. J.Smith, John Wolf (Am
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12/1/74
| Description |
Dr E. J.Smith, John Wolf (Ames) and Charles Hall (Ames) confer during press conference for Pioneer 11 Jupiter encounter |
| Date |
12/1/74 |
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AC77-0376-8
Photograph by TRW Charlie Ha
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4/1/77
| Description |
Photograph by TRW Charlie Hall inspects the Pioneer Venus multiprobe at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Dec. 1976 |
| Date |
4/1/77 |
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AC78-0238
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer
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3/20/78
| Description |
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer Venus Mission Artwork: An artist concept of the orbiter and multiprobe approaching Venus are shown here shortly after probes release - Top to bottom - night probe, day probe sounder probe, North probe, followed by the bus (Note: this original painting's orientation is upside- down) |
| Date |
3/20/78 |
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AC78-9037
Photographer: Pioneer-Venus
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12/9/78
| Description |
Photographer: Pioneer-Venus Press Release (Ocpp. Image #2) |
| Date |
12/9/78 |
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AC78-9052
Photographer: Pioneer-Venus
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12/13/78
| Description |
Photographer: Pioneer-Venus Image (Crescent) |
| Date |
12/13/78 |
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AC78-9070
Photographer: Pioneer-Venus
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2/1/78
| Description |
Photographer: Pioneer-Venus Image 00078 |
| Date |
2/1/78 |
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AC78-9245
Art by Paul Hudson Pioneer V
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3/21/78
| Description |
Art by Paul Hudson Pioneer Venus: Multiprobe Artwork |
| Date |
3/21/78 |
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AC78-9256
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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12/12/83
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Recent computer enchanced surface relief images of Venus. |
| Date |
12/12/83 |
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AC78-9257
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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12/12/83
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Recent computer enchanced surface relief images of Venus. |
| Date |
12/12/83 |
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AC78-9461
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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11/11/88
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus OCPP imagery 0900 collected 5-14-88 10th anniversary release Venus image 7540 |
| Date |
11/11/88 |
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AC78-9462
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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9/15/92
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Orbitor-Aurora and Airglow |
| Date |
9/15/92 |
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AC78-9463
Photographer: Pioneer Venus
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6/29/92
| Description |
Photographer: Pioneer Venus Art: Atmosphere Flow Day/Night Homopause, Ionosphere, Thermosphere, and Cryosphere |
| Date |
6/29/92 |
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AC78-9464
Graphic Art Venus - Day - Ni
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1978
| Description |
Graphic Art Venus - Day - Night drawing showing solar wind, bow shock, magnetosheath, clouds and streamers Pioneer Venus SP-461 fig 6-28 Interaction of the solar wind with the atmosphere of Venus as termined from Pioner Venus experiments and observations |
| Date |
1978 |
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AC91-3008
Photographer : JPL This glob
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10/29/91
| Description |
Photographer : JPL This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 270 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image. Data gaps are filled with Pioneer-Venus orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to inhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. |
| Date |
10/29/91 |
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High Above
On March 7, 1947, not long a
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3/6/09
| Description |
On March 7, 1947, not long after the end of World War II and years before Sputnik ushered in the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful in these grainy black-and-white-photos -- the first pictures of Earth as seen from altitude greater than 100 miles in space. Just the year before in 1946, scientists like John T. Mengel, a NASA pioneer who later oversaw the Vanguard Program, began experimenting with captured German V-2 rockets. Mengel conducted upper atmosphere experiments by launching the rockets into near-earth orbit. He designed and fabricated the first research nose shell to replace of the V-2 warhead and began placing cameras in the nose shell. Before the Small Steps Program began in 1946 using V-2 rockets to take images from space, the highest pictures ever taken of the Earth's surface were from the Explorer II balloon, which ascended 13.7 miles in 1935, high enough to discern the curvature of the Earth. The V-2 cameras reached more than five times that altitude and clearly showed the planet set against the blackness of space. When the movie frames were stitched together, the panoramas taken in the late 1940s covered a million square miles or more at a single glance. Image Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Date |
3/6/09 |
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Mars Science Laboratory
The parachute for NASA's Mar
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4/15/09
| Description |
The parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) passed flight-qualification after testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center. In this image, an engineer is dwarfed by the parachute, the largest ever built to fly on an extraterrestrial flight. It is designed to survive deployment at Mach 2.2 in the Martian atmosphere, where it will generate up to 65,000 lb of drag force. The parachute, built by Pioneer Aerospace, has 80 suspension lines, measures more than 165 feet in length, and opens to a diameter of nearly 51 feet. The wind tunnel itself is 80 feet tall and 120 feet wide -- large enough to house a Boeing 737. JPL is building and testing the MSL spacecraft, which is slated to launch in 2011. The mission will land a roving analytical laboratory on the surface of Mars in 2012. Image Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/JPL |
| Date |
4/15/09 |
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A78-9138
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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11/19/78
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 589 |
| Date |
11/19/78 |
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A78-9167
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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9/29/81
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 0664 |
| Date |
9/29/81 |
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A78-9168
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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9/29/81
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 0693 |
| Date |
9/29/81 |
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A78-9176
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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9/29/81
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 0001 |
| Date |
9/29/81 |
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A78-9177
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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9/29/81
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 0006 |
| Date |
9/29/81 |
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A78-9178
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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9/29/81
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 0007 |
| Date |
9/29/81 |
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A78-9179
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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9/29/81
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 0010 |
| Date |
9/29/81 |
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A78-9461
Photograph by Pioneer Venus
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11/29/88
| Description |
Photograph by Pioneer Venus Venus image 7540 |
| Date |
11/29/88 |
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AC83-0351
Art by Don Davis Pioneer 10
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5/17/83
| Description |
Art by Don Davis Pioneer 10 looking back at the Sun from Neptune's orbit as it becomes the first spacecraft to leave the Solar system |
| Date |
5/17/83 |
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AC86-0038-1
Photographer: N/A Pioneer Ga
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1/17/86
| Description |
Photographer: N/A Pioneer Galileo mission trajectory artwork depicting radio signal from Earth to spacecraft to planet and comet crossing spacecrafts' orbit |
| Date |
1/17/86 |
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Project Red Socks
| title |
Project Red Socks |
| date |
10.01.1957 |
| description |
Project RED SOCKS was to be "the world's first useful moon rocket," proposed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology in October 1957. These artist's renditions show the configuration of motors and a diagram of the moon orbit. RED SOCKS was to respond to the Sputnik launch challenge with a significant technological advance over the Soviet Union instead of merely matching them with another earth-orbiting satellite. The objectives of the project were to "1) get photos, 2) refine space guidance techniques, and 3) impress the world" with a series of nine rocket flights to the moon. The second of the nine flights was to take pictures of the back of the moon. The necessary technology had already been developed for earlier projects, such as the Re-entry Test Vehicle and the Microlock radio ground tracking system. Project RED SOCKS received no support in Washington. In December 1957, JPL and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) were instead asked to orbit an Earth satellite. Explorer 1 was launched 81 days later, on January 29, 1958. A modified RED SOCKS plan was carried out in the Pioneer 4 project in March 1959. *Image Credit*: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Space Pioneer Nancy Roman
| title |
Space Pioneer Nancy Roman |
| date |
01.01.1962 |
| description |
Dr. Nancy Roman, one of the nations top scientists in the space program, is shown with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO). Roman received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1949. In 1959, Dr. Roman joined NASA and in 1960 served as Chief of the Astronomy and Relativity Programs in the Office of Space Science. She was very influential in creating satellites such as the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). She retired from NASA in 1979, but continued working as a contractor at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Throughout her career, Dr. Roman was a spokesperson and advocate of women in the sciences. *Image Credit*: NASA |
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Alfred J. Eggers
| Title |
Alfred J. Eggers |
| Full Description |
Alfred J. Eggers served as NASA's Assistant Administrator for Policy from January 1968 through March 1971. After that he accepted a position as Assistant Director for Research Applications at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Eggers came to the NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) Ames Aeronautical Laboratory in 1944 from the Navy's V- 12 college program. In 1954 he was made Division Chief of the Vehicle Environment Division. This Division was comprised of a physics branch, an entry simulation branch, a structural dynamics branch, the 3.5 foot hypersonic wind tunnel branch and the hypervelocity ballistic range branch. In 1958 Dr. Eggers headed up the Manned Satellite Team which was to consider design problems and propose a practical system for a satellite while recommending a suitable research program. This ultimately lead to Ames developing and managing the highly successful Pioneer program. Dr. Eggers specialized in hypersonic and spaceflight research including the development of new wind tunnel and ballistic range facilities. In May of 1964 Dr. Eggers was appointed Deputy Associate Administrator for Advanced Research and Technology. |
| Date |
01/01/1956 |
| NASA Center |
Ames Research Center |
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Early Voyager 1 Images of Ju
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PIA00454
Sol (our sun)
Imaging Science Subsystem -
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| Title |
Early Voyager 1 Images of Jupiter |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
These Jupiter photographs are part of a set taken by Voyager 1 on December 10 and 11, 1978 from a distance of 83 million km (52 million miles) or more than half the distance from the Earth to the sun. At this range, Voyager 1 is able to record more detail on the giant planet than the very best ground-based telescopes. The highest resolution ever obtained on the Jovian disk was recorded by Pioneer 11 four years ago. Voyager, however, has longer focal-length optics than Pioneer, and while nearly three months from encounter (~ March 1979) was able to achieve higher resolution than that obtained by Pioneer only 24 hours from its encounter on 3 December 1974. Jupiter's colorful and turbulent atmosphere is evident in these photographs. The entire visible surface of the planet is made up of multiple layers of clouds, composed primarily of ammonia ice crystals colored by small amounts of materials of unknown composition. The Great Red Spot, seen to the lower left of 2 and lower right of 3, is now recovering from a period of relative inconspicuousness. An atmospheric system larger than the Earth and more than 100 years old, the Great Red Spot remains a mystery and a challenge to Voyager instruments. A bright convective cloud (center of and right of center in 4) displays a plume which has been swept westward (to the left) by local currents in the planet's equatorial wind system. Below and to the left and right of the Great Red Spot are a pair of white oval clouds, a third can be seen in 1. All three were formed almost 40 years ago and are the second oldest class of discrete features identified in the Jovian atmosphere. Each of the pictures was produced from blue, green, and orange originals in JPL's Image Processing Laboratory. |
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Parafoil in 80 x 120 Foot Wi
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| Title |
Parafoil in 80 x 120 Foot Wind Tunnel |
| Full Description |
The Pioneer Aerospace Parafoil (Advanced Recovery System II), undergoes testing in the world's largest wind tunnel, the 80 x 120 Foot Tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View California. |
| Date |
04/10/1990 |
| NASA Center |
Ames Research Center |
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A Solar System Portrait
| Title |
A Solar System Portrait |
| Explanation |
As the Voyager 1 spacecraft [ http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/vgrfaqs.html ] headed out of our Solar System [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980517.html ], it looked back and took a parting family portrait [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-solarsystem.html ] of the Sun [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html ] and planets. From beyond Pluto [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990213.html ], our Solar System looks like a bright star surrounded by faint dots. In the above picture [ http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/PIAGenCatalogPage.pl?PIA00451 ], the Sun is so bright it is blocked out for contrast. The innermost dots visible, labeled E and V for Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990131.html ] and Venus [ http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/RPIF/VENUS/rpifvenus.html ], are particularly hard to discern. Gas giants Jupiter [ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/Jovian.html ] (J) and Saturn [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html ] (S) are much more noticeable. The outermost planets visible are Uranus [ http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/uranus.htm ] (U) and Neptune [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980221.html ] (N). Each planet is shown labeled and digitally enhanced in an inset image. Voyager 1 is only one of four human-made objects to leave our Solar System, the other three being Voyager 2, and Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. |
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NASA Announces Contract for
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| Title |
NASA Announces Contract for Next-Generation Space Telescope Named After Space Pioneer |
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NASA Destination Tomorrow -
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NASA Destination Tomorrow Vi
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6/1/03
| Description |
NASA Destination Tomorrow Video containing four segments as described below. NASA Destination Tomorrow Segment exploring the transition of aircraft design through the years. The segment describes what aircraft may look like in the future. NASA Destination Tomorrow Segment explaining how the Wright Brothers successfully achieved controlled flight. NASA Destination Tomorrow Segment exploring the background of the first attempted flights. The segment also looks back on the pioneers who built the first flying machine. NASA Destination Tomorrow Segment exploring the predecessor to NASA. The segment explains how NACA played a huge role in the development of aircraft and aeronautical research and development. |
| Date |
6/1/03 |
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Topological Features of a Co
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| Title |
Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases |
| Abstract |
The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences. Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. |
| Completed |
1993-12-17 |
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Topological Features of a Co
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| Title |
Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases |
| Abstract |
The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences. Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. |
| Completed |
1993-12-17 |
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Topological Features of a Co
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| Title |
Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases |
| Abstract |
The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences. Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. |
| Completed |
1993-12-17 |
|
Topological Features of a Co
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| Title |
Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases |
| Abstract |
The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences. Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. |
| Completed |
1993-12-17 |
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Topological Features of a Co
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| Title |
Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases |
| Abstract |
The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences. Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. |
| Completed |
1993-12-17 |
|
Topological Features of a Co
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| Title |
Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases |
| Abstract |
The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences. Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. |
| Completed |
1993-12-17 |
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AC97-0036-1
Pioneer 10 artwork
1997
| Description |
Pioneer 10 artwork |
| Date |
1997 |
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AC97-0036-3
Pioneer 10 artwork
1997
| Description |
Pioneer 10 artwork |
| Date |
1997 |
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A-34975-1
Charles F. Hall, Pioneer Pro
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7/12/65
| Description |
Charles F. Hall, Pioneer Project Manager in his office |
| Date |
7/12/65 |
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A72-1280
Photographer: JPL 210' Dish
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1/26/72
| Description |
Photographer: JPL 210' Dish Antenna at Goldstone Ca - used in tracking Pioneer spacecraft |
| Date |
1/26/72 |
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A72-2137
Photographer: TRW Pioneer-10
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2/26/72
| Description |
Photographer: TRW Pioneer-10 interstellar plaque positioned on spacecraft |
| Date |
2/26/72 |
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A72-2141
Photographer: N/A Pre Launch
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2/26/72
| Description |
Photographer: N/A Pre Launch View of Pioneer F |
| Date |
2/26/72 |
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AC70-1033
Artwork Pioneer F/G spacecra
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1/11/70
| Description |
Artwork Pioneer F/G spacecraft artwork, Jupiter probe |
| Date |
1/11/70 |
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AC71-2696
Photographer: TRW Pioneer F/
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2/3/71
| Description |
Photographer: TRW Pioneer F/G spacecraft thermal model |
| Date |
2/3/71 |
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AC71-2697
Photographer: TRW Pioneer F/
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2/3/71
| Description |
Photographer: TRW Pioneer F/G spacecraft structural model on shaker |
| Date |
2/3/71 |
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AC72-1281
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer
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1/26/72
| Description |
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer F spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter |
| Date |
1/26/72 |
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