The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn: An Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet: Springer Praxis Books
Autor Michael Meltzeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2015
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783319076072
ISBN-10: 3319076078
Pagini: 500
Ilustrații: XXII, 409 p. 84 illus., 40 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 168 x 240 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:2015
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seriile Springer Praxis Books, Space Exploration
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3319076078
Pagini: 500
Ilustrații: XXII, 409 p. 84 illus., 40 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 168 x 240 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:2015
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seriile Springer Praxis Books, Space Exploration
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Public țintă
Popular/generalCuprins
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.
Recenzii
“In this four-part work, Meltzer … addresses the development of the concept and the politics associated with its development, the design of the spacecraft and its mission, the mission itself, and the results of the mission. … This is a testament to both the spacecraft designers and the ingenuity of the operations team. A well-written, thoroughly researched book with appropriate photographs and drawings. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All space technology and history collections.” (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 52 (12), August, 2015)
Notă biografică
Michael Meltzer is a full-time writer of space exploration books and an environmental scientist and engineer. Meltzer worked as an environmental engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 to 2006. Before that, he was a senior environmental scientist at Jacobs Engineering Group. He holds a doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA and a masters degree in Geophysics and a bachelors degree in Physics from University of California at Berkeley. Meltzer has designed the curricula for two college-level classes.
His previous books include When Biospheres Collide (NASA, 2011) and Mission to Jupiter (NASA, 2009) and a textbook entitled Passive & Active Solar Heating Technology (Prentice-Hall, 1985).
His previous books include When Biospheres Collide (NASA, 2011) and Mission to Jupiter (NASA, 2009) and a textbook entitled Passive & Active Solar Heating Technology (Prentice-Hall, 1985).
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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.
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.
Caracteristici
Covers the Cassini-Huygens mission to date in unmatched depth and completeness Highlights an important discovery in the search for life, the revelation by Cassini that Saturn's moon Enceladus has the environment to conceivably harbor life Relies on over 50 interviews conducted with NASA and ESA mission staff for a behind-the-scenes look at how the mission was conducted