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How Voyager's Scientists Shot Moons Blind From Billions of Miles Away

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How Voyager's Scientists Shot Moons Blind From Billions of Miles Away

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Fstoppers looks at how NASA engineers pre-programmed the Voyager spacecraft cameras to photograph planetary moons at 45,000 mph with no viewfinder, no autofocus, and command delays measured in hours. Interesting read, but no practical news value for working photographers today.

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