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The Cassini-Huygens visit to Saturn : an historic mission to the ringed planet
\"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. 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 discovery ever made.\" -- Publisher's description.
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Properties of Saturn kilometric radiation measured within its source region
On 17 October 2008, the Cassini spacecraft crossed the southern sources of Saturn kilometric radiation (SKR), while flying along high‐latitude nightside magnetic field lines. In situ measurements allowed us to characterize for the first time the source region of an extra‐terrestrial auroral radio emission. Using radio, magnetic field and particle observations, we show that SKR sources are surrounded by a hot tenuous plasma, in a region of upward field‐aligned currents. Magnetic field lines supporting radio sources map a continuous, high‐latitude and spiral‐shaped auroral oval observed on the dawnside, consistent with enhanced auroral activity. Investigating the Cyclotron Maser Instability (CMI) as a mechanism responsible for SKR generation, we find that observed cutoff frequencies are consistent with radio waves amplified perpendicular to the magnetic field by hot (6 to 9 keV) resonant electrons, measured locally.
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Journey to Saturn
In this book, readers explore Saturn's orbit and rotation, its moons, its craters and volcanoes, and just what its mysterious rings are made of nformative text also explains the history of exploration of Saturn and what scientists have learned from missions to study the ringed marvel.
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Horizon. Goodbye Cassini, hello Saturn
On 15 September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft ended its remarkable 13-year tour of Saturn by plunging into the gas giant's atmosphere and burning up. Horizon follows the team behind NASA's most successful spacecraft as they prepare for its dramatic descent. Take an incredible journey past Saturn's rings and the small moons orbiting within them. This is the first view from inside the rings, and the closest ever look at Saturn's swirling cloud tops. It's also the first accurate measurement of Saturn's magnetic field, which promises to unlock more mysteries - not just about Saturn, but the entire solar system.
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The Cassini mission : robots exploring Saturn and its moon Titan
\"Scientists first started talking about sending a robot to orbit Saturn in the 1980s. However, it wasn't until 1997 that the Cassini probe launched. Readers learn not only about how the probe was built, but also about the process of planning such an important, complicated endeavor. Full-color photographs and illustrations supplement the main contents explanation of what Cassini learned as it traveled around Saturn and the cool robotic features that collected data. With an emphasis on STEM careers and amazing new technology, readers are sure to want to explore more\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Session 5
This is a presentation given during the Cassini-Huygens Project: Huygens-Legacy and Future Titan Exploration meeting, held from 13 to 15 of January 2010 in Barcelona.
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Saturn
An introduction to the planet Saturn including the environment on Saturn, it's location in our solar system, how it was formed, and how we have explored it over the years.
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Session 6
This is a presentation given during the Cassini-Huygens Project: Huygens-Legacy and Future Titan Exploration meeting, held from 13 to 15 of January 2010 in Barcelona.
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Session 7
This is a presentation given during the Cassini-Huygens Project: Huygens-Legacy and Future Titan Exploration meeting, held from 13 to 15 of January 2010 in Barcelona.
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Session 3
This is a presentation given during the Cassini-Huygens Project: Huygens-Legacy and Future Titan Exploration meeting, held from 13 to 15 of January 2010 in Barcelona.
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