Saturn: A New View by L Lovett
Awesome in its power and beauty, the planet Saturn has gripped the collective imagination of humankind from the day of its discovery, but its extraordinary remoteness has made it inaccessible to telescopes on Earth. Two decades ago, a team led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, started planning the mission that changed that. 7 years and 2.2 billion miles in transit to Saturn, the spacecraft Cassini arrived in July 2004 for a four-year tour to observe the planet in depth. On board was a probe developed by the European Space Agency, which descended through the thick atmosphere on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, sending back the first photographs of a distant world. Images of astounding beauty and enough data to keep hundreds of scientists engrossed for decades have since come streaming back to Earth. Cassini has recorded supercharged storm systems, hurricane-force jet streams and more than forty battered and frozen moons.
Laura Lovett is currently designing exhibition graphics for the Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center in Los Angeles. Joan Horvath has founded Takeoff Technologies LLC, which creates innovative collaborations that cross diverse industries, such as aerospace and entertainment making them more accessible to the public. Dr. Jeff Cuzzi has served as Chief of the Planetary Systems Branch at NASA's Ames Research Center in Palo Alto, CA for 4 years, where he continues his research on the results of the Cassini Mission. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on Saturn. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of America's most celebrated science-fiction writers and lives in Davis, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810930902 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810930900 |
| Title | Saturn: A New View |
| Author | L Lovett |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Abrams |
| Year published | 2006-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 191 |
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