Overview

The joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is the most ambitious planetary mission since the VEGA mission to Venus and Halley in 1985/86 and the Viking arbiters and landers to Mars in 1976. Perhaps Cassini is even more ambitious than these earlier missions, or at least more daring, as it is being attempted as a single launch unlike early missions such as VEGA, Viking and Voyager that benefited from the security of a redundant spacecraft. This volume describes the mission, the orbiter spacecraft, the Titan atmospheric probe and the mission design in articles written by its project scientists and engineering team. These are followed by five articles from each of the discipline working groups discussing the existing knowledge of the Saturnian system and their goals for the mission. Finally, each of the Huygens entry probe instrument teams describes their instruments and measurement objectives. These instruments include an atmospheric structure instrument, an aerosol pyrolyser, an imager/radiometer, a gas chromatograph, a surface science package and a radio science investigation.

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Author:   C.T. Russell
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.252kg
ISBN:  

9781402010989

ISBN 10:   1402010982
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   30 June 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Cassini/Huygens Mission to the Saturnian System.- The Huygens Probe: Science, Payload and Mission Overview.- Touring the Saturnian System.- An Introduction to the Design of the Cassini Spacecraft.- The Huygens Probe System Design.- Cassini-Huygens Investigations of Satellite Surfaces and Interiors.- Saturn’s Rings: Pre-Cassini Status and Mission Goals.- Magnetospheric and Plasma Science with Cassini-Huygens.- Touring the Saturnian System: The Atmospheres of Titan and Saturn.- Organic Chemistry and Exobiology on Titan.- The Characterisation of Titan’s Atmospheric Physical Properties by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI).- Huygens Probe Aerosol Collector Pyrolyser Experiment.- The Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) Experiment on the Huygens Entry Probe of Titan.- The Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer for the Huygens Probe.- Huygens’ Surface Science Package.- The Huygens Doppler Wind Experiment.

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<p> For a mission that will take at least 18 years from conception to completion, it is useful for everyone to be reminded of why it was proposed and how it will be accomplished. This is an essential and convenient reference work for any researcher interested in the Saturnian system and the treasure trove of data that Cassini-Huygens will return. <br>(Carl Murray, The Observatory, 124)

For a mission that will take at least 18 years from conception to completion, it is useful for everyone to be reminded of why it was proposed and how it will be accomplished. This is an essential and convenient reference work for any researcher interested in the Saturnian system and the treasure trove of data that Cassini-Huygens will return. (Carl Murray, The Observatory, 124)

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