The cassini-huygens visit to Saturn (Record no. 567464)
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| fixed length control field | 02327 a2200253 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9783319076072 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 629.1 |
| Item number | M496c |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Meltzer, Michael |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The cassini-huygens visit to Saturn |
| Remainder of title | an historic mission to the ringed planet |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Michael Meltzer |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Springer |
| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Place of publication | Heidelberg |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxii, 409p |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Springer-praxis books in space exploration |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and development required to build the spacecraft; its 2.2-billion-mile journey from Earth to the Ringed Planet; and the amazing discoveries from the mission. The author traces how the visions of a few brilliant scientists matured, gained popularity, and eventually became a reality.<br/><br/>Innovative technical leaps were necessary to assemble such a multifaceted spacecraft and reliably operate it while it orbited a planet so far from our own. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft design evolved from other deep space efforts, most notably the Galileo mission to Jupiter, enabling the voluminous, paradigm-shifting scientific data collected by the spacecraft. Some of these discoveries are absolute gems. A small satellite that scientists once thought of as a dead piece of rock turned out to contain a warm underground sea that could conceivably harbor life. And we now know that hiding under the mist of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is a world with lakes, fluvial channels, and dunes hauntingly reminiscent of those on our own planet, except that on Titan, it’s not water that fills those lakes but hydrocarbons. These and other breakthroughs illustrate why the Cassini-Huygens mission will be remembered as one of greatest voyages of<br/><br/>discovery ever made. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Aerospace engineering |
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| Topical Term | Astronautics -- Astronomy |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Astronomy -- Observations |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Observations -- Astronomical |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Planetary science |
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| Topical Term | Aerospace technology and astronautics |
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| Topical Term | Astronomy, observations and techniques |
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| Topical Term | Planetology |
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| Topical Term | Popular science in astronomy |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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| On Display | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | 08/05/2025 | 112 | 3125.00 | 629.1 M496c | A186827 | 5387.37 | Books |