The Interstellar Age (41 page)

Galileo,
129

Voyager,
56
,
57
,
236
,
255
,
276

Apollo,
8
–9,
48

Apollo
8
,
227
–229

Apollo
17
,
229

Arago, François,
193

Archimedes,
225

Ariel,
181
,
243

Armstrong, Neil,
8

Astrology,
163
,
195

Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile,
62

Atmosphere

Earth,
139

Mars,
285

Neptune,
200
,
205
–207

Saturn,
134
,
139
–141

Triton,
215
–216

Uranus,
177
,
188
–189

Venus,
285

Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem,
52

Attitude control,
113
–114

Autonomous fault protection,
55

Bach, Johann Sebastian,
95

Beatles,
90

Becker, Tammy,
216

Becquerel, Henri,
274

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
95

Bell, Jim

Caltech undergraduate experience,
8
,
26
–33,
46
,
163
–164,
175
–176,
177
,
186

childhood space interest,
10
–13,
133
–134

Neptune flyby viewing,
211

Planetary Society membership,
24

University of Hawaii graduate program,
8
,
186
–188,
195
–198

Uranus flyby viewing,
34
–36

Voyager
memories,
7
–8

Berry, Chuck,
90
–91

Beta Pictoris,
60

“Big Science,”
167
–168

Bioastronomy Symposium: Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life,
287

Blue Marble,
229

Booms,
56
–57

Borman, Frank,
227
,
228

Borucki, Bill,
283
–284,
286
,
287

Boston University,
263

Brown, Robert,
78
–79

Building
179
,
57
–58

Building
264
,
34
,
176
,
219

Burgess, Eric,
75

Bus,
50
–51,
56
,
57

California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
See also
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Bell’s undergraduate experience,
8
,
26
–33,
46
,
163
–164,
175
–176,
177
,
186

Flandro’s graduate work,
42

JPL administration,
50

South Mudd building,
28

Terrile’s graduate work,
59

Callisto,
107
,
108
,
126
–127,
131
,
166
,
243

Canberra Deep Space Communication facility,
63

Canopus,
113

Cape Canaveral,
51

Carter, Jimmy,
21
–22

Casani, John,
20
,
77

Cassini, Giovanni,
103

Cassini
mission,
25
,
51
,
67
,
129
–130,
156
,
157
,
158
–159,
189
,
237
–238

Celestial mechanics,
43

Ceres,
242
,
243

Challenger,
38
,
195

Charon,
218

Clear filter,
113

Clouds and cloud-like features

Io,
118

Jupiter,
103
–104,
108
,
128
,
129

Neptune,
7
,
60
,
204
,
207
,
209

Saturn,
151

Titan,
141

Uranus,
169
,
170
,
177
,
178
,
188

Collins, Andy,
157
,
230
–231

Comets,
245
–246,
280

Command Control Subsystem,
52

Communication with extraterrestrial life.
See
Messages sent into space

Computer systems,
52
–53,
174

Copyright,
90

Coronal mass ejections,
246

“Cosmic Call” messages,
81

Cosmic rays,
16
–17,
247
,
259
,
260
–261

Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS),
17
,
246
–248

Cosmos,
11
–12,
24
,
91
,
231

Cruikshank, Dale,
60

Cryovolcanism,
145

Culberson, John,
132

Curie, Marie,
274

Curie, Pierre,
274

Curiosity
rover,
10
,
26
,
84

Danielson, G. Edward, Jr.,
29
–33,
34
,
38
–39,
175
,
176
,
177
,
203

Deep Space Network (DSN)

Canberra, Australia station,
63

Pioneer
communication,
278

role of,
63
–64

Voyager
communication,
108
–109,
138
,
174
–175,
199
,
255
,
277

Diagrams, Golden Record contents,
85
–90,
94

Digital messages,
99

Dione,
142
,
147
,
150
,
243

DNA,
87
,
92

Dodd, Suzy,
65
,
66
,
68
,
253
,
258
,
260
,
271
,
276
,
277
,
278

Drake, Frank,
75
–76,
77
–78,
83
,
85
,
86
,
87
,
89
,
91

Drake equation,
78

Dreier, Casey,
253

Druyan, Ann,
83
,
85

DSN.
See
Deep Space Network (DSN)

Dunham, Edward “Ted,”
184

Dwarf planets,
242
–243

Dwarf stars,
280
–281

Dysnomia,
242

Earth

atmosphere,
139

characteristics of,
223
–225

magnetic field,
171

photographs of,
225
–231,
236
–239

Earthrise,
228
–229

8-track tape player-recorder,
53
–54