Saturn the Ringed Planet from Galileo to Cassini-Huygens

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A concise history of Saturn from Galileo’s discovery of of the rings, to the robotic probes of the Space Age. This 12,000 word eBook Short Read describes how the Cassini-Huygens mission has transformed our knowledge of Saturn, its spectacular ring system, and its many moons. These include smog-shrouded Titan with its dense atmosphere; Enceladus, where life could exist an a subsurface ocean; and enigmatic Iapetus, darkened on one side with a mysterious ridge running along its equator.

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