| View Larger Image | Saturn: A New View | Hardcoverby Laura Lovett (Author), Joan Horvath (Author), Jeff Cuzzi (Author), Kim Stanley Robinson (Foreword)
| List Price: | $40.00 | | Price: | $29.20 | | You Save: | $10.80 (27%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." | | Page Count: | 192 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 389,974th |
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Product Description
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, Saturn’s 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 LivingstonHost, The Space Show |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 14 reviews)
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Fantastic Eye Candy views for this Amateur Astronomer by Thomas Erickson  5 Stars
October 27, 2009
So glad I bought this book. As an amateur astronomer for over 40 years I have viewed Saturn and some of its moons dozens of times with my 20 inch telescope and am always impressed. The Cassini and Huygens images in this book are spectacular. My jaw dropped. The pictures are true eye candy. So much detail and beautiful. The book gives good detailed information too. This book truely is a beautiful masterpiece work of art. The pictures are too beautiful to be put away in a home library.Buy two copies. One for your home library and one for the coffee table for all to see! This is the kind of picture book parents should show and read to their children and then let the kids view Saturn on a telescope. Such beautiful pictures in this book could spark their interest in Astronomy for life.
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Treasure by C. Juliet (San Diego, CA) 5 Stars
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.
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Saturn is truly the jewel of the solar system! by Lee LaFarge (West Virginia) 5 Stars
March 20, 2008
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!
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Saturn: A New View by R. Scott (Ohio) 5 Stars
February 08, 2008
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.
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great book by Eric Flescher (Olathe, KS (near Kansas City)) 5 Stars
November 25, 2007
Gorgeous pictures, informative astronomical information and more about Mars fresh from the Cassini spacecraft. The next thing to being there almost.
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