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Saturn: A New View
After a journey of seven years and 2.2 billion miles, the spacecraft Cassini, with a probe named Huygens aboard, reached Saturn in July 2004, beginning a four-year tour to observe the remote planet, its rings, and its moons in depth. As a result of the spectacularly succesful Cassini-Huygens mission, photographs of astounding beauty have come streaming back to Earth, toget...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
(first published January 1st 2006)
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An absolutely beautiful book! The images of the ringed world are breathtaking. The book tells the story of the Cassini spacecraft and its smaller companion lander Huygens. The information and images relayed back to Earth will forever change how we look and think about the sixth planet, Saturn.
On funds drawn from a Christmas gift card to Borders Bookstore, I purchased this wonderful hardbound volume: my first official coffee table book!
Filled with awe-inspiring images taken by the nuclear-powered Cassini space probe orbiting Saturn, and accompanied by informative text, this is a great coffee table book for space enthusiasts to dress their living rooms with. Now all I need is a coffee table to put it on.
Filled with awe-inspiring images taken by the nuclear-powered Cassini space probe orbiting Saturn, and accompanied by informative text, this is a great coffee table book for space enthusiasts to dress their living rooms with. Now all I need is a coffee table to put it on.
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Amazing pictures of my favorite planet and its moons.
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