Lorenz / Mitton Titan Unveiled

Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
With a New afterword by the authors
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3475-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lorenz, Ralph

Mitton, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables vii

Preface xi

Chapter 1: The Lure of Titan 1

Chapter 2: Waiting for Cassini 21

Chapter 3: Cassini Arrives 67

Chapter 4: Cassini's First Taste of Titan 101

Chapter 5: Landing on Titan 132

Chapter 6: The Mission Goes On 174

Chapter 7: Where We Are and Where We Are Going 211

Afterword to the Paperback Edition 233

Appendix: Summary of Dynamical and Physical Data 255

Further Reading 257

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph Lorenz is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Jacqueline Mitton is a writer, editor, and media consultant in astronomy. They are the coauthors of Lifting Titan's Veil: Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn.