162 illustrations, 52 in full-color, 192 pages, 11x11"
Hardcover with jacket
ISBN: 0-8109-3090-0
EAN: 9780810930902
US $40.00
September 2006
Availability: Backorder (2-3 weeks)
$40.00
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 and its moons in depth. As a result of the spectacularly successful Cassini-Huygens mission, photographs of astounding beauty have come streaming back to Earth, together with enough data to keep hundreds of scientists engrossed for decades. Reproduced here, in unprecedented detail and exquisite, high-quality format, are 150 of the best of those images, among them rings from the unlit side never visible from Earth and panoramas of the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
This breathtaking volume, including authoritative essays on the planetary system and the mission, reveals the planet, its ethereally beautiful rings, and its 40+ moons in ways never before seen or recorded.
"Astonishing, amazing, and personal."
--Dr. David Livingston
Host, The Space Show
Laura Lovett has worked on several key space-related projects, including the award-winning Apollo 11 Collection. She lives in Larkspur, CA. Joan Horvath spent 16 years at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked on the Cassini mission to Saturn. She lives in Pasadena. Dr. Jeff Cuzzi has twice been awarded NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He lives in the Palo Alto area. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of America's most celebrated science-fiction writers and lives in Davis, CA.
