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Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and development required to build the spacecraft; its 2.2-billion mile journey from Earth to the Ringed Planet and the amazing discoveries from the mission. The author traces how the visions of a few brilliant scientists matured, gained popularity and eventually became a reality. Innovative technical leaps were necessary to assemble such a multifaceted spacecraft and reliably operate it while it orbited a planet so far from our own. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft design evolved from other deep space efforts, notably the Galileo mission to Jupiter, enabling the voluminous, paradigm-shifting scientific data collected by the spacecraft. Some of these discoveries are absolute gems. A small satellite that scientists once thought of as a dead piece of rock turned out to contain a warm underground sea that could conceivably harbor life. And we now know that hiding under the mist of Saturn s largest moon, Titan, is a world with lakes, fluvial channels, and dunes hauntingly reminiscent of those on our own planet, except that on Titan, it s not water that fills those lakes but hydrocarbons. These and other breakthroughs illustrate why the Cassini-Huygens mission will be remembered as one of greatest voyages of discovery ever made.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Mathematics & science Astronomy, space & time Solar system: the Sun & planets

• Pełny tytuł: Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn
• Autor: Michael Meltzer
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 409
• EAN: 9783319076072
• ISBN: 3319076078
• ID: 02667895
• Wydawca: Springer International Publishing AG
• Waga: 778 g
• Wymiary: 235 × 159 × 28 mm
• Data wydania: 03. January 2015

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