In the early 1980s, when the two Voyager spacecraft skimmed past Titan, Saturn's largest moon, they transmitted back enticing images of a myster... read full description
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Mar 26, 2011
Cassandra
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This book really gives you a play by play of the mission as it unfolded, it also references some potential missions and extensions for the future. It is not a "new frontier, hypothetical" type book. The book is more technical and gives even so much as wind patterns and atmospheric pressures and so forth for the great moon of Saturn. It is more interested in data presentation than story telling, which honestly I appreciated and enjoyed quite a bit.
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Jun 28, 2011
Alina
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If you want to know what the Cassini/Huygens mission discovered about Titan -- which is what I was looking for -- you will be disappointed by this book. It does provide a few nuggets of information regarding Saturn's largest moon -- dunes of organic sand, ethane lakes in the polar regions, highlands rumpled by deep canyons, complex hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. But to find descriptions of Titan itself, you have to dig through a lot of details about instrument design, data analysis, and the p
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Nov 18, 2010
Joe
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There's a terrible irony associated with being a student of physics: The vast majority of casual science reading is either coloring books for preschoolers or graduate-level textbooks.
This is just one reason that Titan Unveiled is exceptional. It's delightfully conversational and sufficiently technical but not too inside-baseball that you need an aerospace engineering degree to follow along. If ever it was appropriate to make this analogy, planetary scientists call this the Goldiloc More...
This is just one reason that Titan Unveiled is exceptional. It's delightfully conversational and sufficiently technical but not too inside-baseball that you need an aerospace engineering degree to follow along. If ever it was appropriate to make this analogy, planetary scientists call this the Goldiloc More...
May 10, 2011
Richard
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A fascinating account of the first stages of the exploration of a new world (in many ways one of the most Earth-like in the solar system).
Dec 06, 2009
Timothy
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A good book about the Cassini mission, particularly the Huygens probe portion of the mission. A little dry for the average reader due to the technical information, but if that doesn't bother you there's lots of behind the scenes information on how a space mission unfolds.
Sep 29, 2008
Melody
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Densely scientific but still quite interesting. It's a slog, there's no denying. But worthwhile, if you like that sort of thing.
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