Author: Nicole Mortillaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554076499
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring photos from NASA resources, Saturn examines the planet and its place in our universe with a special emphasis on the most recent discoveries of the Cassini probe.--
Saturn
Author: Nicole Mortillaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554076499
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring photos from NASA resources, Saturn examines the planet and its place in our universe with a special emphasis on the most recent discoveries of the Cassini probe.--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554076499
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring photos from NASA resources, Saturn examines the planet and its place in our universe with a special emphasis on the most recent discoveries of the Cassini probe.--
Explore Saturn
Author: Liz Milroy
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 9781728418490
Category : Saturn (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
"Learn about Saturn's vast and beautiful network of rings, and see how it is similar to or different from other planets. Updated scientific discoveries accompany this lively text for beginning readers"--
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 9781728418490
Category : Saturn (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
"Learn about Saturn's vast and beautiful network of rings, and see how it is similar to or different from other planets. Updated scientific discoveries accompany this lively text for beginning readers"--
The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn
Author: Michael Meltzer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319076086
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319076086
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Let's Explore Neptune
Author: Helen Orme
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836879445
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Presents information about Neptune, its place in the solar system, and its relationship to other celestial bodies.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836879445
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Presents information about Neptune, its place in the solar system, and its relationship to other celestial bodies.
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn
Author: Paul M. Schenk
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816537070
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
With active geysers coating its surface with dazzlingly bright ice crystals, Saturn’s large moon Enceladus is one of the most enigmatic worlds in our solar system. Underlying this activity are numerous further discoveries by the Cassini spacecraft, tantalizing us with evidence that Enceladus harbors a subsurface ocean of liquid water. Enceladus is thus newly realized as a forefront candidate among potentially habitable ocean worlds in our own solar system, although it is only one of a family of icy moons orbiting the giant ringed planet, each with its own story. As a new volume in the Space Science Series, Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn brings together nearly eighty of the world’s top experts writing more than twenty chapters to set the foundation for what we currently understand, while building the framework for the highest-priority questions to be addressed through ongoing spacecraft exploration. Topics include the physics and processes driving the geologic and geophysical phenomena of icy worlds, including, but not limited to, ring-moon interactions, interior melting due to tidal heating, ejection and reaccretion of vapor and particulates, ice tectonics, and cryovolcanism. By contextualizing each topic within the profusion of puzzles beckoning from among Saturn’s many dozen moons, Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn synthesizes planetary processes on a broad scale to inform and propel both seasoned researchers and students toward achieving new advances in the coming decade and beyond.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816537070
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
With active geysers coating its surface with dazzlingly bright ice crystals, Saturn’s large moon Enceladus is one of the most enigmatic worlds in our solar system. Underlying this activity are numerous further discoveries by the Cassini spacecraft, tantalizing us with evidence that Enceladus harbors a subsurface ocean of liquid water. Enceladus is thus newly realized as a forefront candidate among potentially habitable ocean worlds in our own solar system, although it is only one of a family of icy moons orbiting the giant ringed planet, each with its own story. As a new volume in the Space Science Series, Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn brings together nearly eighty of the world’s top experts writing more than twenty chapters to set the foundation for what we currently understand, while building the framework for the highest-priority questions to be addressed through ongoing spacecraft exploration. Topics include the physics and processes driving the geologic and geophysical phenomena of icy worlds, including, but not limited to, ring-moon interactions, interior melting due to tidal heating, ejection and reaccretion of vapor and particulates, ice tectonics, and cryovolcanism. By contextualizing each topic within the profusion of puzzles beckoning from among Saturn’s many dozen moons, Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn synthesizes planetary processes on a broad scale to inform and propel both seasoned researchers and students toward achieving new advances in the coming decade and beyond.
Saturn
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312872182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A novel of the ringed planet-and the humans who explore her
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312872182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A novel of the ringed planet-and the humans who explore her
Lifting Titan's Veil
Author: Ralph Lorenz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521793483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A revealing account of the second largest moon in our solar system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521793483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A revealing account of the second largest moon in our solar system.
Saturn in the 21st Century
Author: Kevin H. Baines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710677X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
A detailed overview of Saturn's formation, evolution and structure written by eminent planetary scientists involved in the Cassini Orbiter mission.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710677X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
A detailed overview of Saturn's formation, evolution and structure written by eminent planetary scientists involved in the Cassini Orbiter mission.
Saturn
Author: Derek Zobel
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1612112072
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Saturn has the largest and most complex ring system of any planet in the solar system. Young learners will read about Saturn¿s discovery, its physical traits, and how the sixth planet in the solar system has been explored.
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1612112072
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Saturn has the largest and most complex ring system of any planet in the solar system. Young learners will read about Saturn¿s discovery, its physical traits, and how the sixth planet in the solar system has been explored.
The Saturn System Through The Eyes Of Cassini
Author: Nasa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680922141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Saturn System Through The Eyes Of Cassini is printed in full-color on 70-pound paper. The Cassini-Huygens mission has revolutionized our knowledge of the Saturn system and revealed surprising places in the solar system where life could potentially gain a foothold--bodies we call ocean worlds. Since its arrival in 2004, Cassini-Huygens has been nothing short of a discovery machine, captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. Cassini taught us that Saturn is a far cry from a tranquil lone planet with delicate rings. Now, we know more about Saturn's chaotic, active, and powerful rings, and the storms that rage beneath. Images and data from Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus hint at the possibility of life never before suspected. The rings of Saturn, its moons, and the planet itself offer irresistible and inexhaustible subjects for intense study. As the Cassini mission comes to a dramatic end with a fateful plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017, scientists are already dreaming of going back for further study.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680922141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Saturn System Through The Eyes Of Cassini is printed in full-color on 70-pound paper. The Cassini-Huygens mission has revolutionized our knowledge of the Saturn system and revealed surprising places in the solar system where life could potentially gain a foothold--bodies we call ocean worlds. Since its arrival in 2004, Cassini-Huygens has been nothing short of a discovery machine, captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. Cassini taught us that Saturn is a far cry from a tranquil lone planet with delicate rings. Now, we know more about Saturn's chaotic, active, and powerful rings, and the storms that rage beneath. Images and data from Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus hint at the possibility of life never before suspected. The rings of Saturn, its moons, and the planet itself offer irresistible and inexhaustible subjects for intense study. As the Cassini mission comes to a dramatic end with a fateful plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017, scientists are already dreaming of going back for further study.