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The Cassini-Huygens visit to Saturn [electronic resource] : an historic mission to the ringed planet / Michael Meltzer.

Meltzer, Michael, 1946- author.
2015
QB671
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Title
The Cassini-Huygens visit to Saturn [electronic resource] : an historic mission to the ringed planet / Michael Meltzer.
Author
Meltzer, Michael, 1946- author.
ISBN
9783319076089 electronic book
3319076086 electronic book
9783319076072
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07608-9
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-07608-9 doi
Call Number
QB671
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.43/546
Summary
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, most 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 22, 2015).
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Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
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Print version: 9783319076072
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Part I: Creating a New Expedition to Saturn
Conceiving and Funding the Mission
Building an International Partnership and Preventing Mission Cancellation
Part II: Designing, Fabricating, and Integrating the Cassini-Huygens Space Vessel
Constructing the Cassini Orbiter
The Titan Huygens Probe
Integrating the Cassini Orbiter, Huygens Probe, and Titan/Centaur Launch Vehicle
Using Plutonium to Run a Spacecraft
Part III: From Earth to Saturn
The Interplanetary Journey
How a Few People Can Make a Big Difference: The Doppler Shift Problem That Nearly Ended the Huygens Mission
The Huygens Titan Probe Mission
The Saturn Tour: Decision-Making Processes, Trajectory Design, and Changes of Management
Part IV: A Great Natural Laboratory
The Mother Planet and its Magnetosphere
The Ring System
The Icy Moons
Titan Observations by the Cassini Orbiter
Conclusions
Appendix: Breakdown of Mission Costs.

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