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The ringed planet
Title statement The ringed planet : Cassini's voyage of discovery at Saturn / Joshua Colwell. [elektronický zdroj] Publication San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017] Distribution Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2017] Phys.des. 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). ISBN 9781681744971 (online) 9781681744995 mobi Edition [IOP release 3] IOP concise physics, ISSN 2053-2571s Note "Version: 20170401"--Title page verso. "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Includes bibliographical references. Contents Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Seeing Saturn Content note 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. 5. Dynamic rings -- 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 rings -- 5.10. The age of the rings. 6. Titan : the planet moon -- 6.1. The atmosphere -- 6.2. Lakes, dunes and mountains -- 6.3. Titan's interior. 7. The Ringed Planet -- 7.1. Origin and interior -- 7.2. Atmosphere -- 7.3. Magnetic field -- 8 Future exploration of the Saturn system. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web.. Požadavky na systém: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. Another responsib. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, Institute of Physics (Great Britain), Korporations keywords Cassini (Spacecraft) Subj. Headings Saturn probes. * Popular astronomy and space. * SCIENCE / Astronomy. Geographic keywords Saturn (Planet) - Exploration. Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Country Kalifornie Language angličtina Document kind Electronic books URL Plný text pro studenty a zaměstnance UPOL 
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In September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the surface of Saturn and end its 13-year mission of solving many of the mysteries of the ringed planet's system with a crash. This book is a dramatic, 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. It is a non-technical book for everyone who loves astronomy.
Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Seeing Saturn3. 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 faithful5. Dynamic rings -- 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 rings -- 5.10. The age of the rings6. Titan : the planet moon -- 6.1. The atmosphere -- 6.2. Lakes, dunes and mountains -- 6.3. Titan's interior7. The Ringed Planet -- 7.1. Origin and interior -- 7.2. Atmosphere -- 7.3. Magnetic field -- 8 Future exploration of the Saturn system.
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