دانلود کتاب Pioneer: First to Jupiter, Saturn, and Beyond

Issues by NASA, Washington, DC, 1980, 9x12 inches, 285 pages. Illusrated with diagrams and photos, it is a report on the Pioneer probes with detailed text on the missions and numerous color and black and white photos.

The Pioneer Program continues to achieve far beyond its original objectives because of the successful missions of Pioneers 10 and 11 which have been in space over 8 years and 7 years, respectively. An overview of the Pioneer Jupiter/Saturn mission is presented including the planning process; technical aspects of the spacecraft design and operation; and the scientific payloads and the experiments conducted during interplanetary flight and the flyby portion of the missions. Data obtained from the various experiments are analyzed. The imaging photopolarimeter is described and technical details of planetary images are examined.