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From: andrew@alberta.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: picture of Solar System
Message-ID: <712@cadomin.alberta.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 18:48:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 18 18:48:15 1986
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In article <8611181755.AA25367@nrl-csr.ARPA> anderson@NRL-CSR.ARPA (Paul Anderson) writes:
>Has there been any effort to have either Voyager I or Voyager II take a
>picture of one or more planets, or of the solar system, as they are flying
>away from it, looking back at it?  Of particular interest would be pictures
>of Pluto; even though these spacecraft may be a long way away from it, they
>still might be closer to it than we are here.
>Anybody know anything about this?
>Paul Anderson
>anderson@nrl-csr

The Voyagers have taken departing shots of every planet they went by,
including the Earth and Moon (in the same frame, a first!).  Pluto is
just a *bit* too far away for it to appear any larger than it does from
Earth, remember the Voyager's cameras are < 8 (?) inches in diameter,
and Pluto will still be some A.U.'s away at 'closest approach'. I still
think the shots of a cresent Saturn were the most remarkable.

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