Saturn
Exploring the Mystery of the Ringed Planet
by Nicole Mortillaro
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Saturn
Featuring extraordinary color photographs selected from NASA resources on almost every page, Saturn examines the ringed planet and its place in our solar system with a special emphasis on the discoveries of the Cassini probe and its Huygens lander.
As Nicole Mortillaro explains in her informative text, the Cassini-Huygens mission, which was launched in 1997, has generated enormous scientific interest with its accomplishments so far. These include:
• Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn’s moon Titan, a world that scientists now believe possesses many parallels to Earth including lakes, rivers, channels, dunes, rain, snow, clouds, mountains and possibly volcanoes
• Recording images of a storm raging across Saturn that has lightning 10,000 times more powerful than any lightning on Earth
• Discovering there may be as many as 10 million tiny moonlets in Saturn’s rings
• Finding that a recently discovered moon embedded in the planet’s G ring may actually be responsible for that ring; prior to this discovery, scientists believed it was the only ring without an associated moon.
Saturn is a splendid showcase of some of the closest and most detailed views of this exotic world and the science that helps explain what we’ve found there.
Hardcover : 96 pages
Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd. ( September 01, 2010 )
Item #: 13-149390
ISBN: 9781554076499
Product Dimensions: 10.0 x 10.0 inches
Product Weight: 31.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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