NASA PIONEER 10 SPACECRAFT PROGRAM JUPITER ODYSSEY CARL SAGAN 48594

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This official circa 1973 NASA color film tells the story of Pioneer 10 — the first spacecraft to travel beyond Mars to the outer planets of our solar system. Launched in March 1972, the spacecraft took a 21-month, 620-million-mile journey to Jupiter, during which Pioneer penetrated the previously unexplored asteroid belt without mishap, eliminating the long held fear that high-speed particles or huge asteroids might destroy the spacecraft.

This film tells of the findings recorded by the scientific instruments and cameras onboard. We see its unmistakeable great red spot (mark 01:30) and various animations before seeing Gerard Kuiper, considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science, who shares a number of his photographs. The actual launch of the spacecraft is shown at mark 09:33, followed by several animations of Pioneer 10 mixed with scenes from mission control. Grainy images — gathered from scans taken by the spacecraft — are shown on a monitor at mark 14:22. The narrator speculates whether some form for life exists beneath the planet’s thick clouds, with astronomer Carl Sagan detailing the possible reasons why beginning at mark 15:22. At mark 16:05 we see the familiar “picture postcard of what nude human female an male bodies look like as well as Earth’s location in the galaxy. For the first time ever, we see “crescent” images of Jupiter (mark 22:20). Even more animations follow as the narrator explains how more mysteries are waiting to be unlocked.

After leaving the Jovian system and wandering endlessly through the Milky Way galaxy, carrying a message for possible extraterrestrial beings, radio communications were lost with Pioneer 10 in 2003.

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This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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