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Saturn: A New View | 
 enlarge | Authors: Laura Lovett, Joan Horvath, Jeff Cuzzi
Creator: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 90807
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 25.4
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 11.1 x 0.8
Dewey Decimal Number: 523.46
ASIN: B001993V6Q
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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After a journey of seven years and 2.2 billion miles, the spacecraft Cassini, with a probe named Huygens aboard, reached Saturn in July 2004, beginning a four-year tour to observe the remote planet, its rings, and its moons in depth. As a result of the spectacularly succesful Cassini-Huygens mission, photographs of astounding beauty have come streaming back to Earth, together with enough data to keep hundreds of scientists engrossed for decades. Reproduced here, in unprecedented detail and exquisite, high-quality format, are 150 of the best of those images, among them rings from the unlit side never visible from Earth and panoramas of the surface of Titan, Saturns largest moon.
This breathtaking volume, including authoritative essays on the planetary system and the mission, reveals the planet, its ethereally beautiful rings, and its 40+ moons in ways never before seen or recorded.
Astonishing, amazing, and personal.
Dr. David Livingston
Host, The Space Show
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Treasure June 15, 2008
I'm glad they were able to make a book out of all the pictures they took, they are amazing and worth appreciating. The book is way cheeper than the cost of getting the photos, probes of this kind cost millions of dollars and don't always succeed, this is a true treasure.
Saturn is truly the jewel of the solar system! March 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is full of wonderful images and information on the stunning Cassini mission. I could only dream of seeing such images when I was a kid caught up in the space program in the 50s and 60s. I think about how much the great pioneers, from Galileo to Carl Sagan, would have loved these images. There have been many more extraordinary images sent back from Cassini since this book was published, so I beg the authors to follow up with a second edition!
Saturn: A New View February 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful book with stunning pictures from a distant world. Well worth the money.
A note to Amazon: The USPS delivered this item in a box that had been quite literally mutilated in transit. I took photos before pulling back the flap that was already open. It was a miracle the book was in one piece. This is not an unusual event when I recieve packages shipped USPS.
great book November 25, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gorgeous pictures, informative astronomical information and more about Mars fresh from the Cassini spacecraft. The next thing to being there almost.
Sublime images of an all too fantastic world October 23, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
For me this is a superb collection of images and text relating to our more "up to the minute" knowledge of the ringed planet and it's accompanying constellation of moons and moonlets, the slightly oversized format is ideal for viewing this style of photography, in that it allows you to get some grasp of the scope and scale involved in the outer planets. We are given a window out of science fiction into the more breathtaking realm of natural beauty. More dazzling to the eye than Jupiter, Saturn captures the imagination for me like no other world and this book shares the amazing images beamed back to us from nearly unimaginable distances and makes the unfamilier seem all the more majestic and awe inspiring. If you are a fan of astronmical photography, the Cassini space probe or just have an interest in the raw beauty of science and exploration, this book is a must have.
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