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Color image of the anodized aluminum plaque attached to Pioneer 10. It shows line art diagrams of a man and woman, their relative size compared to the probe, a diagram of our solar system with Pioneer's path past Mars and Jupiter then out of the solar system, our location relative to a number of pulsars, and a schematic representation of a well-known Hydrogen atom transition.

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Color image of the anodized aluminum plaque attached to Pioneer 10. It shows line art diagrams of a man and woman, their relative size compared to the probe, a diagram of our solar system with Pioneer's path past Mars and Jupiter then out of the solar system, our location relative to a number of pulsars, and a schematic representation of a well-known Hydrogen atom transition.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Mar-2023 13:54:02 UTC Robert McNees

The Pioneer 10 spacecraft launched #OTD in 1972.
It was a mission of firsts: passing through the asteroid belt, visiting Jupiter, crossing the orbits of Neptune and then Pluto. We detected a last, faint signal on January 23, 2003. Now it belongs to the cosmos.
Images: NASA

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