The ringed planet : Cassini's voyage of discovery at Saturn /

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In September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the surface of Saturn and end its 13-year mission of solving many of the mysteries of the ringed planet's system with a crash. This book is a dramatic, beautifully illustrated journey of discovery through the Saturn system. Cass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colwell, Joshua (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Cassini (Spacecraft)
Saturn probes.
Popular astronomy and space.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Saturn (Planet) > Exploration.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Seeing Saturn
  • 3. Why are there moons and rings?
  • 4. A menagerie of moons
  • 4.1. The inner mid-sized icy moons
  • 4.2. Impacts and craters
  • 4.3. Synchronous rotation
  • 4.4. Icy satellite tectonics
  • 4.5. Interactions with the magnetosphere
  • 4.6. The curious case of Hyperion
  • 4.7. Iapetus : the two-tone moon
  • 4.8. Enceladus : Saturn's old faithful
  • 5. Dynamic rings
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. The main rings
  • 5.3. Self-gravity wakes
  • 5.4. Satellite wakes and shepherding
  • 5.5. Density waves and bending waves in the rings
  • 5.6. The B ring, ballistic transport and spokes
  • 5.7. The C ring and Cassini division
  • 5.8. The F ring
  • 5.9. The dusty rings
  • 5.10. The age of the rings
  • 6. Titan : the planet moon
  • 6.1. The atmosphere
  • 6.2. Lakes, dunes and mountains
  • 6.3. Titan's interior
  • 7. The Ringed Planet
  • 7.1. Origin and interior
  • 7.2. Atmosphere
  • 7.3. Magnetic field
  • 8 Future exploration of the Saturn system.

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