书目名称 | The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn |
副标题 | An Historic Mission |
编辑 | Michael Meltzer |
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概述 | 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 |
丛书名称 | Springer Praxis Books |
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描述 | .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 wi |
出版日期 | Book 2015 |
关键词 | Cassini Mission Overview; Exploration of Saturn; Huygens Probe Discoveries; Huygens Titan Research; NASA |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07608-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-07607-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-07608-9 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |