What is Pioneer 11?

Pioneer 11 is an unmanned space spacecraft, the other has ever crossed the asteroid belt and visited Jupiter and its months. Unlike his predecessor and sister craft, Pioneera 10, Saturn also visited Jupiter with gravitational assistance from Jupiter. The probe then climbed the solar system and headed towards the constellation Aquila (Eagle). He will go there near one of the stars in about four million years. Although he originally intended only to visit Jupiter, Pioneer 11 was redirected in the middle of the mission to visit Saturn. It is irony that the plaque accompanying the pioneer 11, intended for possible aliens, suggests that it has left the solar system using the assistance of Jupiter, although it is false.ass of the Moon Callisto. Using gravitational assistance, Saturn continued.

Pioneer 11 went through Saturn 1 September 1979 and reached up to 21,000 km from the peaks of the cloud. The first probe ever been orbiting Saturn was a hu measurementStoty of the ring particles and ensured that the planetary zone would be safe for the incoming vessel Voyager, which has already passed Jupiter and was on the way. If the ring particles would be dangerous for probes, they would be taken away from the immediate vicinity of the planet to prevent the rings, but would miss the opportunity to gravitate assistance to visit other external planets, uranium and Neptune. It was determined that the dust was too thin to damage the spacecraft there.

During his visit to Saturnian System, Pioneer 11 Imaged and almost collided with the small month of Epimetheus, whose existence was suspected, but astronomers were not confirmed. Among other measurements, the Moon, Titan, was probably too cold for life.