Titan unveiled [Elektronisk resurs] Saturn's mysterious moon explored

• Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Preface; 1. The Lure of Titan; 2. Waiting for Cassini; 3. Cassini Arrives; 4. Cassini's First Taste of Titan; 5. Landing on Titan; 6. The Mission Goes On; 7. Where We Are and Where We Are Going; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; Appendix: Summary of Dynamical and Physical Data; Further Reading; Index. 

• For twenty-five years following the Voyager mission, scientists speculated about Saturn's largest moon, a mysterious orb clouded in orange haze. Finally, in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully parachuted down through Titan's atmosphere, all the while transmitting images and data. In the early 1980s, when the two Voyager spacecraft skimmed past Titan, Saturn's largest moon, they transmitted back enticing images of a mysterious world concealed in a seemingly impenetrable orange haze. Titan Unveiled is one of the first general interest books to reveal the startling new discoveries that 

Ämnesord

Saturn (Planet) -- Satellites. 

Saturn probes. 

Titan (Satellite) -- Exploration. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

QB405 .L675 2010 (LCC)

523.986 (DDC)

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