The Ringed Planet: Cassini's Voyage of Discovery at Saturn

ISBN-13: 9781681744964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 142 str.

Joshua Colwell

Opis

In September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the atmoshpere of Saturn and end its 13-year mission of solving many of the mysteries of the ringed planet's system with a crash. This book is a dramatic, beautifully illustrated journey of discovery through the Saturn system. It is a non-technical book for everyone who loves astronomy.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• Seeing Saturn
• Why are there moons and rings?
• A menagerie of moons
• Dynamic rings
• Titan: the planet moon
• The Ringed Planet
• Future exploration of the Saturn system