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Furthermore, the author fails to focus on perhaps the most important part of the subject matter, the planets and the moons themselves. He spends so much time going into every little detail of how NASA actually sends its probes to their locations that you get lost trying to figure out what he was trying to explain to begin with.
He constantly uses terms only familiar to physics and chemistry majors. If you are looking for a more amateur-friendly book about astronomy then I recommend checking out David Grinspoon. His writing is a lot less technical and he focuses on the important big picture instead of letting his readers get lost in all the insignificant details that are only important to a scientist, not an amateur astronomy enthusiast. As noted by at least one other reviewer, the text is not at the level of a PBS Nova program, but rather intended for the interested layperson who has some familiarity and is comfortable with technical details and prose.
The focus is on the mission and the spacecraft, and although the findings are certainly there, I might have wished that more emphasis might have been placed on those discoveries and confirmations, particularly in the context of painting a descriptive picture of the Saturn system.
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But, for what it sets out to do -- explain the mission and all the equipment and strategies that made it possible -- this book does a fine job of it. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. This is a new edition of Harland's fine 'Mission to Saturn', adding new pages of Cassini findings through summer , including of course the results of the Huygens encounter at Titan.
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As usual, a handy, comprehensive volume, nicely written and illustrated. There is no point in buying Mission to Saturn now, since its contents are included in CaS: See all 4 reviews. Feedback If you have a question or problem, visit our Help pages. If you are a seller for this product and want to change product data, click here you may have to sign in with your seller id.
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As the Cassini spacecraft approached its destination in spring , the quality of the images already being returned by the spacecraft clearly demonstrated the spectacular nature of the close-range views that will be obtained. The book contains a page colour section, comprising a carefully chosen selection of the most stunning images to be released during the spacecraft's initial period of operation.
The Huygens craft, released by Cassini, parachuted through the clouds of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in January Titan is considered to be an early Earth in deep freeze, possibly with the building blocks of life in its atmosphere. There will undoubtedly be enormous interest in the first results and images of Titan's surface, and this book is the first incisive summary of this groundbreaking material. Table of contents Saturn from afar. Review Text From the reviews: Written for the intelligent layperson, there is a wealth of detail about the mission, presented in text and extensive sets of figures and photographs, including 16 in spectacular color.
There is a page index, four pages of suggested reading, eight pages of facts and figures, two pages of acronyms and 28 pages of notes.
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All levels of readers. As a reference book it is highly detailed The book has plenty of black and white illustrations As a reference, this book is very useful. This book is an excellent primer on Saturn and the history of humanity's fascination with this spectacular world. It's also a very thorough account of the Cassini mission to date - and the mission is far from over.