Pioneer
(#70710492)
Where frail men dared not venture, they traveled on alone.
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Crystal Carrier
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This dragon’s natural inborn element is Light.
Male Mirror
This dragon is hibernating.
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
6.6 m
Wingspan
6.75 m
Weight
585.23 kg
Genetics
Orange
Starmap
Starmap
Buttercup
Constellation
Constellation
Saffron
Runes
Runes
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Mirror
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
7
AGI
6
DEF
8
QCK
5
INT
5
VIT
8
MND
6
Biography
Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft intended to fly by Jupiter, surviving the intense radiation that surrounds the giant planet and then on a trajectory that would take it out of the Solar System.
The spacecraft became the first to fly beyond Mars' orbit, through the asteroid belt, and close to Jupiter, blazing a trail for the two Voyager spacecraft that were to follow and conduct more in-depth surveys. During the passage by Jupiter, Pioneer 10 obtained the first close-up images of the planet, charted Jupiter's intense radiation belts, located the planet's magnetic field, and discovered that Jupiter is predominantly a liquid planet. Long before and after flying by Jupiter, Pioneer 10 transmitted data on the magnetic fields, energetic particle radiation and dust populations in interplanetary space.
Its twin, Pioneer 11, was the first mission to explore Saturn and the second spacecraft in humanity's early reconnaissance of the outer solar system. The spacecraft carried instruments to study magnetic fields, the solar wind and the atmospheres, moons and other aspects of Jupiter and Saturn.
During its flyby of Jupiter Pioneer 11 obtained dramatic images of the Great Red Spot, made the first observation of the immense polar regions, and determined the mass of Jupiter's moon, Callisto.
At Saturn, Pioneer 11 took the first close-up pictures of the planet. Its instruments located two previously undiscovered small moons and an additional ring, charted Saturn's magnetosphere and magnetic field and found its planet-size moon, Titan, to be too cold for life. Hurtling underneath the ring plane, Pioneer 11 sent back amazing pictures of Saturn's rings. The rings, which normally seem bright when observed from Earth, appeared dark in the Pioneer pictures, and the dark gaps in the rings seen from Earth appeared as bright rings. It also found that the planet it emits more than twice as much heat as it receives from the Sun. Photographs revealed a more featureless atmosphere than that of Jupiter, and calculations based on data from Pioneer 11 suggested that Saturn is primarily liquid hydrogen with a core of about 10 Earth masses.
The dormant spacecraft is now headed out of our solar system in the general direction of Sagittarius, toward the center of the galaxy. Both Pioneers 10 and 11 carry a plaque with a message for any intelligent beings that might find them.
NASA RSP
The spacecraft became the first to fly beyond Mars' orbit, through the asteroid belt, and close to Jupiter, blazing a trail for the two Voyager spacecraft that were to follow and conduct more in-depth surveys. During the passage by Jupiter, Pioneer 10 obtained the first close-up images of the planet, charted Jupiter's intense radiation belts, located the planet's magnetic field, and discovered that Jupiter is predominantly a liquid planet. Long before and after flying by Jupiter, Pioneer 10 transmitted data on the magnetic fields, energetic particle radiation and dust populations in interplanetary space.
Its twin, Pioneer 11, was the first mission to explore Saturn and the second spacecraft in humanity's early reconnaissance of the outer solar system. The spacecraft carried instruments to study magnetic fields, the solar wind and the atmospheres, moons and other aspects of Jupiter and Saturn.
During its flyby of Jupiter Pioneer 11 obtained dramatic images of the Great Red Spot, made the first observation of the immense polar regions, and determined the mass of Jupiter's moon, Callisto.
At Saturn, Pioneer 11 took the first close-up pictures of the planet. Its instruments located two previously undiscovered small moons and an additional ring, charted Saturn's magnetosphere and magnetic field and found its planet-size moon, Titan, to be too cold for life. Hurtling underneath the ring plane, Pioneer 11 sent back amazing pictures of Saturn's rings. The rings, which normally seem bright when observed from Earth, appeared dark in the Pioneer pictures, and the dark gaps in the rings seen from Earth appeared as bright rings. It also found that the planet it emits more than twice as much heat as it receives from the Sun. Photographs revealed a more featureless atmosphere than that of Jupiter, and calculations based on data from Pioneer 11 suggested that Saturn is primarily liquid hydrogen with a core of about 10 Earth masses.
The dormant spacecraft is now headed out of our solar system in the general direction of Sagittarius, toward the center of the galaxy. Both Pioneers 10 and 11 carry a plaque with a message for any intelligent beings that might find them.
NASA RSP
We sent them out to the planets, to worlds beyond our own;
Where frail men dared not venture they traveled on alone.
Though they be no more than robots, to the stars they steer!
And we wish them on their journey all the luck of the Pioneer.
They set their course for Jupiter, the ruler of the worlds,
To gain their speed from his mighty pull as from a slingshot hurled.
They stole for us his image, his secrets guarded dear,
But gave in turn a royal gift in the luck of the Pioneer.
Then on and out to Saturn, the ringed queen of skies,
And through the very rings themselves they carried our distant eyes.
We feared then for their safety, but they could know no fear,
And they left their name on the gap they found by the luck of the Pioneer.
The sun grows dim behind them, a billion miles or more.
The stars are e'er before them, a glittering distant shore.
An age will pass before the day a strange sun draws them near,
And till that day we'll raise a toast to the luck of the Pioneer!
But should some other find them as the galaxy they roam,
And study these strange craft of ours and seek to learn their home,
Why, they carry our maps upon them, in friendship written clear,
And we give to the race that reads them all the luck of the Pioneer.
And when men someday follow to the places they have been,
We'll take the paths they've marked for us and see the sights they've seen.
To Jupiter and Saturn, to the stars themselves we'll steer!
And we pray that God but grant us then the luck of the Pioneer.
Aye, we pray that God but grant us then
The luck of the Pioneer!
Pioneer's Song
Where frail men dared not venture they traveled on alone.
Though they be no more than robots, to the stars they steer!
And we wish them on their journey all the luck of the Pioneer.
They set their course for Jupiter, the ruler of the worlds,
To gain their speed from his mighty pull as from a slingshot hurled.
They stole for us his image, his secrets guarded dear,
But gave in turn a royal gift in the luck of the Pioneer.
Then on and out to Saturn, the ringed queen of skies,
And through the very rings themselves they carried our distant eyes.
We feared then for their safety, but they could know no fear,
And they left their name on the gap they found by the luck of the Pioneer.
The sun grows dim behind them, a billion miles or more.
The stars are e'er before them, a glittering distant shore.
An age will pass before the day a strange sun draws them near,
And till that day we'll raise a toast to the luck of the Pioneer!
But should some other find them as the galaxy they roam,
And study these strange craft of ours and seek to learn their home,
Why, they carry our maps upon them, in friendship written clear,
And we give to the race that reads them all the luck of the Pioneer.
And when men someday follow to the places they have been,
We'll take the paths they've marked for us and see the sights they've seen.
To Jupiter and Saturn, to the stars themselves we'll steer!
And we pray that God but grant us then the luck of the Pioneer.
Aye, we pray that God but grant us then
The luck of the Pioneer!
Pioneer's Song
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