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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Requiem, post: 953289, member: 11044&quot;]<b>With the help of the unmannedspaceflight forum we&#039;ve finally been able to trace down the images recovered from our Pioneer tapes.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Lets dive in:</p><p>The images recovered from our Pioneer tapes belong to spectrophotometry observations of Planets, Satellites and Asteroids.</p><p><br /></p><p>The online files that match files on our tapes can be found here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?id=PSMGT&amp;mission=iue" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?id=PSMGT&amp;mission=iue" rel="nofollow">IUE Proposal Search</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The B/W and colour images on QK7992H are LWR01530, LWR01531 and LWR01532.</p><p>We&#039;ve got only a small part of Pione-7937 for now (Reading last year has been dicey) but its metadata says its LWR1888.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what have we learnt from this?</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Its still possible to correctly read and digitize binary data from magnetic tapes, at least into the 70&#039;s and 60&#039;s. As long as care and expertise is provided.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. With the help of people around the world we were able to correctly process the image data into a common, modern format readily accessible with modern operating systems and software.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. A crucial factor in the correct data processing has been the metadata found on the tape, which was easily readable and provided important clues to its contents.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Its unlikely the remaining tapes contain some of the lost Pioneer data sets, as they were all part of the same lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Crowdsourcing and openly providing the files has perhaps been the most important factor in the success of this project.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully I will be able to provide data from the remaining tapes at one point.</p><p>Regards,</p><p><font size="4"><b><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/members/requiem.11044/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/members/requiem.11044/">Requiem</a></b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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