SP-349/396 PIONEER ODYSSEY
 
Figure 5-15. Excitement rose as the PICS system displayed images of Jupiter of ever increasing size as Pioneer 10 plunged in at high speed toward its closest approach to the planet. But perhaps the most dramatic moment was after encounter and the spacecraft had been hidden behind Jupiter. PICS started to show a few spots which gradually built up into a very distorted crescent Jupiter. <<Sunrise on Jupiter,>> an experimenter exclaimed excitedly. <<We've made it safely through periapsis.>> Subsequent PICS images showed a crescent Jupiter which gradually decreased in size. (See following pages.)

Figure 5-15. Excitement rose as the PICS system displayed images of Jupiter of ever increasing size as Pioneer 10 plunged in at high speed toward its closest approach to the planet. But perhaps the most dramatic moment was after encounter and the spacecraft had been hidden behind Jupiter. PICS started to show a few spots which gradually built up into a very distorted crescent Jupiter. "Sunrise on Jupiter," an experimenter exclaimed excitedly. "We've made it safely through periapsis." Subsequent PICS images showed a crescent Jupiter which gradually decreased in size. (See following pages.)

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