The Interstellar Age (46 page)

image processing challenges,
30
,
232
,
235
–236

navigational use,
113
–114

Surveyor,
50
,
227

Swift, David,
43
,
46
–47

Swift, Katie,
46

Swisdak, Marc,
263
–264

Tantalum,
110

Telescopes

Bell’s childhood experiences,
10
,
13
,
133
–134

DSN,
34
,
63

Hale Telescope,
59

Hubble Space Telescope,
29
,
51
,
130
,
168
,
185
,
188
,
250

Infrared Telescope Facility,
58
–59

invention of,
165

Parkes Radio Telescope,
175

University of Hawaii,
58
–59

on
Voyager
spacecraft,
57

Termination shock,
256
–258

Terrile, Rich,
52
,
59
–60,
120
,
143
,
152
–153,
155
,
157
,
182
–183,
211
–213,
222
,
236

Tethys,
142
,
145
,
151
,
158
,
243

Thebe,
128

Thompson, Bob,
275
–276

Thruster fuel,
276
–277

Titan,
131
,
135
,
138
–141,
150
,
156
,
241
,
243

Titan III-Centaur rockets,
62

Titania,
166
,
168
,
181

Transit method,
283
–287

Triton,
201
–203,
213
–218,
243

Truly, Richard,
234
–235

TRW,
154

Turing, Alan,
71

Tusi, Nasir al-Din al-,
167

TV,
10
–11

Tyson, Neil deGrasse,
25

Umbriel,
181

University of Hawaii,
58
,
60
,
186
,
195

University of Iowa,
264
–265

University of Maryland,
263

University of Michigan,
266

Uranium-238,
274

Uranus

atmosphere,
177
,
188
–189

Bell’s childhood telescope viewings,
13

discovery of,
164
–168,
191

Flandro’s gravity assist research,
43
–46

ices on,
179

internal structure,
207
–209

magnetic field,
37
,
170
–171,
177
–180,
185

moons,
180
–183,
187
–188

orbit and rotation,
168
–171

pronunciation,
164

rings,
144
,
184
–186

Voyager
mission,
30
,
33
–39,
47
,
49
,
171
–186,
198

Urey, Harold,
139

US Geological Survey, Astrogeology Science Center Flagstaff,
214

Valhalla,
127

Venus

atmosphere,
285

Magellan
orbiter,
195

Mariner
flyby,
42
,
47
,
50

orbiters,
26

transits in front of sun,
283
–284,
295
–296

visibility from earth,
239

Vesta,
242
,
243

Veverka, Joe,
35
–36,
119

Vibration tables,
57

Viking,
9
–10,
12
,
62
,
157
,
183

Volcanism,
118
–120,
145
–146,
241
–242

Voyager
Program

attitude control,
113
–114

computer system,
52
–53

end of,
219
–220

expectations for,
12
–14

Flandro’s gravity assist contributions,
41
–47

funding,
252
–253

future of,
279
–282,
288
–292

“Grand Tour” trajectory,
45
–49,
141
–142

image processing at Caltech,
29
–33

Interstellar Mission,
244
–251,
253
–271,
277
–278

leadership team,
14
–18

Planetary Society’s support,
21
–26

risk mitigation strategies,
54
–56

rocket launch technologies,
61
–69

spacecraft design,
49
–61

team members’ jobs between flybys,
161
–163

teamwork,
68
–69

work years devoted to,
68

Voyager
1

current communication with,
277
–278

current position estimates,
248
–249

Earth photographs,
229
–230

flight trajectory of,
9
,
72
,
105
–109

future of,
279
–282,
288
–292

interstellar space passage,
251
,
258
–270

Io volcano discovery,
114
–120

Jupiter flyby,
23
,
59
,
107
–108,
109
,
120
–121

launching of,
7
–8,
62

mosaic solar system portrait,
235
–236

naming of,
61

power supply,
273
–278

Saturn flyby,
23
,
133
,
136
,
137
–148

solar system photograph discussion,
231
–233

termination shock crossing,
257
–258

Titan flyby,
138
–142,
147
–148

Voyager
2

computer system,
174

current communication with,
277
–278

current position estimates,
249

Europa discoveries,
120
–125

flight trajectory of,
9
,
72
,
105
–109,
139
,
141
–142,
147
–149,
171
–172,
213
,
214

future of,
279
–282,
288
–292

interstellar space passage,
251
,
270
–271

Io images,
120