The Interstellar Age (44 page)

Miller, Stanley,
139

Mimas,
142
,
150
,
166
,
180

Miranda,
37
,
39
,
172
,
177
,
181
–183

Mission Planning Office,
14

MJS-77
(Mariner Jupiter Saturn ’77),
48
,
49
–61

MOC (Mars Orbiter Camera),
39

Model rockets,
41
–42

Moon (Earth),
226
–227,
230
,
243

Moon landing,
8
–9

Moons

definition of,
104
–105

Jupiter,
103
,
104
,
107
,
108
,
109
,
111
,
114
–128,
130
–132,
166
–167,
241
,
243

Neptune,
201
–203,
212
–218

new discoveries from
Voyager
data,
211
–212

Pluto,
218

Saturn,
131
,
135
,
142
,
143
,
145
–148,
150
,
151
,
158
–159,
166
,
241
,
243

Uranus,
180
–183,
187
–188

Morabito, Linda,
114
–115,
116
,
117
–118,
119

Morrison, David,
154
,
156
,
157

Mt. Palomar,
59

Murmurs on Earth
(Sagan),
83

Murray, Bruce,
24
,
118

Music, Golden Record contents,
84
–85,
90
–91,
93
–97

NASA.
See also
Deep Space Network (DSN); Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL);
specific missions

Ames Research Center,
135
,
283
,
286

Challenger
disaster impact,
195

federal funding cuts,
22
,
25
,
252
–253,
278

future mission priorities,
131
–132

Golden Record content approval,
90

“Grand Tour” mission support,
48
–49,
147

imaging technology,
10

JPL’s affiliation with,
49
–50

private space program funding,
294

public outreach efforts,
234
–235

public support for,
24
–25

recognition of Flandro’s contribution to
Voyager
program,
47

secret missions,
157

Uranus Data Analysis Program,
186
–187

Navigation,
113
–114

N-
body problem,
192

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission,
36

Neptune

atmosphere,
200
,
205
–207

Bell’s childhood telescope viewings,
13

discovery of,
191
–194

Flandro’s gravity assist research,
43
–46

Hammel’s wind studies,
60

internal structure,
207
–209

magnetic field,
200
,
209
–210

moons,
201
–203,
212
–218

naming of,
193
–194

rings,
185
,
210
–211

storms,
204

Voyager
mission,
47
,
49
,
198
–219

Neptunium,
274
–275

Nereid,
213

New Frontiers,
142

New Horizons,
97
–99,
130
,
148
,
218
,
249
,
282

NewSpace,
294
–295

Newton, Isaac,
199

Nitrogen,
139
,
140
,
146
,
147
,
215
,
216
,
218

Nixon administration,
48

NOVA,
11

Nye, Bill,
25
,
27
,
84
,
90
–91

Oberon,
166
,
168
,
181

Occulation,
138
,
184
–185

Oceans, on Europa,
122
,
124

One Earth: New Horizons Message Project,
99

Oort, Jan,
280

Oort Cloud,
280

Öpik, Ernst,
280

Opportunity,
10
,
19
,
26
,
84
,
230
,
238
–239

Optical navigation (opnav),
114

Orion Nebula,
250

Oxidizing environment,
139

Pale Blue Dot
photograph,
236
–237

Parkes Radio Telescope,
175

PBS,
10
,
11

Peale, Stan,
115
,
119
–120

Phoenex,
99

Photographs.
See also
Image processing

of Earth,
225
–231,
236
–239

Golden Record contents,
84
–93,
94

Pickering, Edward,
168

Pioneer
program,
51
,
73
–77,
103
,
109
,
120
–121,
279

Pioneer
10
,
23
,
73
,
249
,
250
,
278
–279

Pioneer
11
,
23
,
73
,
135
–136,
139
,
149
,
249
,
250
,
278
–279

Pioneer
Anomaly,
279

Planetary alignment,
8

The
Planetary Report,
24

Planetary scientists,
18
–20,
196
–198

Planetary Society,
21
–26,
99
,
235
,
253
,
279

Planets,
241
–243,
282
–288.
See also
specific planets

Plaques

Pioneer
missions,
73
–77

Voyager
missions,
74
–75

Plasma ions,
254
,
263
,
264
–265

Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS),
264
–265

Plato,
225

Pluto

discovery of,
217

Flandro’s gravity assist research,
43
–45

moons,
218

New Horizons
flyby,
97
–99,
130
,
148
,
218
–219

planet status,
242
–243

Voyager
mission,
47
,
142
,
147
–148