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

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"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.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 -- 4.9. The fabulous five : Cassini's parting look at five ring-moons5. The rings--a dance of gravity -- 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 rings6. Divining the age of the rings -- 6.1. The problem -- 6.2. The spreading of the rings -- 6.3. The mass of the rings -- 6.4. The brightness of the rings -- 6.5. The erosion of the rings -- 6.6. The composition of the rings -- 6.7. The age and origin of the rings7. Titan : the planet moon -- 7.1. The atmosphere -- 7.2. Lakes, dunes and mountains -- 7.3. Titan's interior8. Saturn's hidden mysteries -- 8.1. Origin and interior -- 8.2. Atmosphere -- 8.3. Magnetic field9. Future exploration of the Saturn system -- 9.1. Ocean worlds -- 9.2. Rings -- 9.3. Saturn -- 9.4. Other worlds.On September 15, 2017, the Cassini spacecraft sent its final transmission to the Earth as it entered the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its historic 13-year mission at the ringed planet. This book is a beautifully illustrated journey of discovery through the Saturn system. Cassini's instruments have revealed never seen before details, including the only extraterrestrial lakes known in the solar system, and have provided unprecedented views of the rings, moons, and the planet itself. Results from Cassini's dramatic Grand Finale of ring-grazing and planet-skimming orbits are included in this expanded and updated second edition.General/trade.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Dr. Joshua Colwell is a Planetary Scientist and Pegasus Professor of Physics at the University of Central Florida. His research interests are in the origin and evolution of the solar system, planet formation, planetary rings, asteroids and comets. He worked on the Cassini mission from 1990 until 2017, and continues to analyze data from it. His experiments have flown on the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, suborbital rockets, and parabolic airplane flights. He produces and hosts the astronomy podcast 'Walkabout the Galaxy'.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2019).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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9781643277141

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Second edition.

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SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
Saturn probes.
Saturn (Planet)

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