Book Details
Title: Saturn: A New View
Author: L. Lovett, J. Horvath & J. Cuzzi
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, inc.
Year: 2006
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 191
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-0-8109-3090-2
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact and in good condition. Minor wear to extremities, more pronounced at ends of spine. Small tear at top end of spine.
The hardcover is intact and in good condition with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to extremities, represented by some rubbing to the ends of spine and corners.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Awesome in its power and beauty, the planet Saturn has gripped the collective imagination of humankind from the day of its discovery, but its extraordinary remoteness has made it difficult to view from Earth. More than two decades ago, an international team led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, started planning the mission that changed that. Seven years in transit to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft arrived in July 2004 for a four-year tour to observe the planet in depth. Hitchhiking on board was a poble named Huygens, developed by the European Space Agency, which descended through the thick atmosphere on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and landed in the mud, sending back the first images of a distant world.
Photographs of astounding beauty and enough data to keep hundreds of scientists engrossed for decades have since come streaming back to Earth. Belying its image of timeless serenity, Saturn has proven to be a dynamic system of great complexity. Cassini has recorded supercharged storm systems, hurricane-force jet streams, and more than forty battered and frozen moons. The planet's extraordinary rings are also constantly in flux: ringlets come and go and ripples appear as tiny moons tug at them in passing.
'Saturn: A New View presents 150 of the best photographs received from both Cassini and Huygens, many for the first time. These images - among them the rings from the unlit side never visible from Earth, new details of all of Saturn's large moons, and panoramas of Titan's surface - have been processed in high resolution and reproduced in unprecedented detail and colour fidelity. Though we may never get to Saturn ourselves, this distant planetary system comes alive through the power of these breathtaking images. Accompanying the wealth of new imagery are thoughtful essays on historical observations of the ringed planet, the development of the mission, and the significance of its remarkable scientific findings. This magnificent volume presents the world of Saturn with a depth and breadth never before captured in the pages of a book."
Book Details
Title: Saturn: A New View
Author: L. Lovett, J. Horvath & J. Cuzzi
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, inc.
Year: 2006
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 191
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-0-8109-3090-2
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact and in good condition. Minor wear to extremities, more pronounced at ends of spine. Small tear at top end of spine.
The hardcover is intact and in good condition with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to extremities, represented by some rubbing to the ends of spine and corners.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Awesome in its power and beauty, the planet Saturn has gripped the collective imagination of humankind from the day of its discovery, but its extraordinary remoteness has made it difficult to view from Earth. More than two decades ago, an international team led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, started planning the mission that changed that. Seven years in transit to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft arrived in July 2004 for a four-year tour to observe the planet in depth. Hitchhiking on board was a poble named Huygens, developed by the European Space Agency, which descended through the thick atmosphere on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and landed in the mud, sending back the first images of a distant world.
Photographs of astounding beauty and enough data to keep hundreds of scientists engrossed for decades have since come streaming back to Earth. Belying its image of timeless serenity, Saturn has proven to be a dynamic system of great complexity. Cassini has recorded supercharged storm systems, hurricane-force jet streams, and more than forty battered and frozen moons. The planet's extraordinary rings are also constantly in flux: ringlets come and go and ripples appear as tiny moons tug at them in passing.
'Saturn: A New View presents 150 of the best photographs received from both Cassini and Huygens, many for the first time. These images - among them the rings from the unlit side never visible from Earth, new details of all of Saturn's large moons, and panoramas of Titan's surface - have been processed in high resolution and reproduced in unprecedented detail and colour fidelity. Though we may never get to Saturn ourselves, this distant planetary system comes alive through the power of these breathtaking images. Accompanying the wealth of new imagery are thoughtful essays on historical observations of the ringed planet, the development of the mission, and the significance of its remarkable scientific findings. This magnificent volume presents the world of Saturn with a depth and breadth never before captured in the pages of a book."
