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Topic: Books about the Cassini-Huygens mission
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Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3343
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-19-2021 11:43 AM
  
Can anyone recommend a good hardback textbook on the entire Cassini-Huygens mission, including the science done up to mission-end in 2017? I'm not looking for a "coffee-table" book, but I would prefer a reasonably large format (around 11 inches high) with a good presentation of key representative images, up to and including the final orbits. The book doesn't need to be highly technical, but should cover the key scientific findings comprehensively. Does such an exotic animal exist (yet)? |
Headshot
Member Posts: 1013
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 06-19-2021 11:22 PM
I too am curious about a good survey/summary book about the Cassini mission. And the Galileo mission to Jupiter too. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3343
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-20-2021 04:47 PM
On Galileo, you could try "Jupiter Odyssey" by David Harland (Springer Praxis) and "The Worlds of Galileo" by Michael Hanlon. Both are detailed and have numerous photos (more reference books than coffee table books) although both were published shortly before the end of Galileo's mission. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6263
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 06-20-2021 06:21 PM
On the Titan part of the mission and published in 2020, "Saturn's Moon Titan: From 4.5 Billion Years Ago to the Present" (Haynes Owners Workshop Manual) by Dr. Ralph Lorenz. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3343
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-23-2021 03:10 PM
Yes, I am aware of that, but it doesn't cover Cassini's observations of Saturn and the other moons. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6103
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-24-2021 12:09 AM
NASA SP-533 (Passage to a Ringed World) and you can check part 3 and part 4 of the David Harland and Paolo Ulivi "Robotic Exploration of the Solar System" book series. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3343
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-24-2021 01:43 PM
Unfortunately, the reviews of "Passage to a Ringed World" state that it was actually written before Cassini was launched. |
carl walker
Member Posts: 374
From: Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 07-13-2021 11:48 AM
Any good? |
RobertB
Member Posts: 228
From: Israel
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 07-22-2021 01:58 PM
The Cassini-Huygens Mission (2004) is on a deep discount in the Springer website till tomorrow (July 23). |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3343
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-24-2021 09:46 AM
Again, these are books published long before the end of Cassini's mission. Much of the best science had not happened when the books were published. I'm sure a book on Apollo 11, published in June, 1969, would be of some historical value, but it would be somewhat lacking in "the real stuff." |
herranzc
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From: Madrid, Spain
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 07-24-2021 04:00 PM
This one almost delivers, except for the last year of mission:NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens: 1997 Onwards (Cassini Orbiter, Huygens Probe and Future Exploration Concepts), Haynes Publishing, 2017 |
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