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Title: Lifting Titan's Veil : Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn by Ralph Lorenz, Jacqueline Mitton ISBN: 0-521-79348-3 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: interesting scientific work
Comment: This book is fun for whoever loves science.Its an example of applying science to data gathered from earth telescopes and space probes,mainly through the eyes of Hubble and Voyager. Attempts at explaining theoretical models behind possible chemical and physical processes at work on this moon are made.It would be interesting to compare the current thinking with what Cassini will actually reveal in a years time!
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good book on what we know now.
Comment: The authors do a good job in this book and it is a good read. What is interesting is how much we do not know about this amazing satellite. We have no idea about what the surface is like. In less than 5 years the Cassini mission w/ the Huygens lander will make this book obsolete. You have to wonder why this book was written so close to Cassini's arrival. Until then this book should be standard text in any amatuer astronomers library. The authors give too much credit to Carl Sagan and not enough to the real scientists who have contributed to our limited knowledge on the subject. Besides that this book almost gets my highest rating.
Rating: 5
Summary: Titan And The Pursuit Of Science
Comment: This is an exciting time for planetary exploration, when after the solar system has been reconnoitered by spacecraft (except Pluto) and now spacecraft are being sent to specific planets and moons, etc., for closer examination. LIFTING TITAN'S VEIL covers the Cassini mission to Saturn and it's large moon Titan, known to possess a thick atmosphere and perhaps a hydrocarbon ocean, due to insert itself into Saturnian orbit in July, 2004, the attached Huygens probe should enter Titan's atmosphere January, 2005.
The authors include a lot of science in this volume, including background information concerning moons and planets across the solar system. Most of this book covers Titan of course, what we know about it and how we came about that knowledge, from early times to the present. Titan's atmosphere and surface and sub-surface conditions recieve the most attention, with the chemistry of the atmosphere discussed at length. Also, the authors debate the possibility of an ethane/methane ocean existing on Titan as the surface temperature, according to available evidence, is close to the triple point of methane. All of this science can of course, as the authors point out, shed light on the formation and evolution of the solar system and in turn give us clues to our own origins in the misty past. As a chemist I especially enjoyed the information on the chemistry of Titan, and the space-buff in me enjoyed all of it. In addition, the Cassini spacecraft is detailed, and there are lots of illustrations, many in color.
On a personal note, I remember being at the space center as a visitor just a few days before the launch of Cassini, in October, 1997, and thinking that here is this spacecraft sitting out there on the pad just a few hundred yards from the Atlantic beach, I wondered then, will Huygens, at the end of it's journey, find another beach? Space travel is cool!
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Title: A Traveler's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet by William K. Hartmann ISBN: 0761126066 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Beyond Pluto by John Davies ISBN: 0521800196 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 23 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Smithsonian Book of Mars (Smithsonian Library of the Solar System) by Joseph M. Boyce ISBN: 1588340740 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton ISBN: 0312245513 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Mission to Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe (Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences) by David M. Harland ISBN: 1852336560 Publisher: Praxis Pr Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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