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Washington: NASA, 1997. 1st edition. As New. quarto. stiff wrappers 157pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., appends., index, ÔA good look at what is involved in sending a large spacecraft to the outer solar system. Join us and share in the excitement of this extended voyage of discovery! One of the first things you will learn is that CassiniÐHuygens is an international mission. Seventeen countries are involved. You will also learn that Huygens is an atmospheric probe that the Cassini spacecraft will deliver to Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.Õ

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997. Trade paperback. Good. [10], 157, [1] pages. Appendices: A Glossary of Terms, Acronyms and Abbreviations, General Index, Solar System Characteristics, Program and Science Management, and Bibliography. Addendum. Rear cover creased. Small corner creases to some pages. Linda Spilker is an American planetary scientist who is the Cassini mission Project Scientist. Her research interests include the evolution and dynamics of Saturn's rings. Spilker got a B.A. in Physics from the California State University, Fullerton, in 1977 and an M.S. in Physics from the California State University, Los Angeles in 1983. She obtained a Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992. She joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977, initially working on the Voyager missions that were launched the same year. She became a Cassini mission scientist in 1990. In 1997, she was the editor of a NASA publication that… Read More