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The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn

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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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Springer Praxis Books tes

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Cham : Springer., 2015

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XXII, 409

Language

English

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978-3-319-07608-9

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text

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computer

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Observations and Techniques

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Michael Meltzer

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Jemadi

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-319-07608-9.pdf?pdf=button

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