Meanwhile excitement was building. As early as February 8 and 9, delight with the mission and anticipation of the results of the encounter in March were already evident. Garry E. Hunt, from the Laboratory for Planetary Atmospheres, University College, London, a member of the Imaging Team, discussing the appearance of Jupiter’s atmosphere as seen by Voyager during the previous month, said “It seems to be far more photogenic now than it did during the Pioneer encounters; I’m more than delighted by it—it’s an incredible state of affairs. There are infinitely more details than ever imagined.” [Illustration: The Voyager Project was operated from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology. Located in the hills above Pasadena, California, JPL is the main center for U.S. exploration of the solar system. [JB17249BC]] [Illustration: The Voyager TV cameras do not take color pictures directly as do commercial cameras. Instead, a color image is reconstructed on the ground from three separate monochromatic images, obtained through color filters and transmitted separately to Earth. There are a number of possible filter combinations, but the most nearly “true” color is obtained with originals photographed in blue (480 nanometers), green (565 nanometers), and orange (590 nanometers) light. Before these can be combined, the individual frames must be registered, correcting for any change in spacecraft position or pointing between exposures. Often, only part of a scene is contained in all three original pictures. Shown here is a reconstruction of a plume on Jupiter, photographed on March 1, 1979. The colors used to print the three separate frames can be seen clearly in the nonoverlapping areas. For other pictures in this book, the nonoverlapping partial frames are omitted. [P-21192]] The pictures from Voyager are “clearly spectacular,” said Lonne Lane, Assistant Project Scientist for Jupiter. “We’re getting even better results than we had anticipated. We have seen new phenomena in both optical and radio emissions. We have definitely seen things that are different—in at least in one case, unanticipated—and are begging for answers we haven’t got.” There was already, still almost a month from encounter, a strong feeling of accomplishment among the scientists and engineers; they had done a difficult task and it has been successful.