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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, 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 Livingston
Host, The Space Show
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Sublime images of an all too fantastic world.......2007-10-23
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.
Saturn.......2007-06-08
For anyone who is interested in astronomy, especially when it relates to the planets in our solar system, this is a must have. The book beautifully describes and illustrates this elegant planet, providing detailed photos of it's body, rings and moons. I purchased this as a gift for my boyfriend and he absolutely LOVES it!
Very beautiful book.......2007-01-09
This book presents some very beautiful views of the Saturnian system as captured by the Casinni Spacecraft. It also provides some inciteful essays detailing the design, construction and operation of the spacecraft as well as the physics of the planet itself, its atmosphere and fascinating ring system and moons.
Breathtaking Visualizations of the Lord of the Rings.......2007-01-07
Lovett's Saturn book is a tribute to the Cassini mission science team in images. The visualizations tell so much about the new knowledge now being acquired from the spacecraft in orbit of the planet. While the book is short on scientific detail, it is not designed to be a scientific treatise. It will take years to digest what is now being witnessed. The many Saturnian moons hold so much new knowledge yet to be understood. The images only begin to tell the story but each is worth seeing while the experts struggle to explain their meaning. I HIGHLY recommend this book to the astronomer and the lay person alike. It is well worth every penny to share in the spellbinding images contained on nearly every page with a brief text description. This is a display of The Lord of the Rings!
An Entirely Subjective Review.......2007-01-06
My disclaimers up front. First, I have worked for JPL for close to 20 years; half of my career (including currently and during the entire period these photos were taken) has been spent supporting Cassini directly or indirectly. So there is no way I can even pretend to have an objective perspective. Second, this is my personal review and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cal Tech, JPL or NASA.
I love this book. It is so exciting as one small cog working on a mission to see the fruits of my labor being so prominently and publicly displayed. I put out semi-regular "astropics" newsletters to a group of family, friends, and now friends of friends who similarly love astronomy and JPL's missions. If I were to compile my favorite pics out of the years that I have been doing this, many of my favorites would be ones included in this book. I highly recommend this book to any lover of astronomy, old and new to learn the latest that is being revealed by this wonderful mission.
Chuck Kirby
Cassini Spacecraft Systems Engineer
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In August 1992, W.G. Sebald set off on a walking tour of Suffolk, one of England's least populated and most striking counties. A long project--presumably The Emigrants, his great anatomy of exile, loss, and identity--had left him spent. Initially his tour was a carefree one. Soon, however, Sebald was to happen upon "traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past," in a series of encounters so intense that a year later he found himself in a state of collapse in a Norwich hospital.
The Rings of Saturn is his record of these travels, a phantasmagoria of fragments and memories, fraught with dizzying knowledge and desperation and shadowed by mortality. As in The Emigrants, past and present intermingle: the living come to seem like supernatural apparitions while the dead are vividly present. Exemplary sufferers such as Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement people the author's solitude along with various eccentrics and even an occasional friend. Indeed, one of the most moving chapters concerns his fellow German exile--the writer Michael Hamburger.
"How is it that one perceives oneself in another human being, or, if not oneself, then one's own precursor?" Sebald asks. "The fact that I first passed through British customs thirty-three years after Michael, that I am now thinking of giving up teaching as he did, that I am bent over my writing in Norfolk and he in Suffolk, that we both are distrustful of our work and both suffer from an allergy to alcohol--none of these things are particularly strange. But why it was that on my first visit to Michael's house I instantly felt as if I lived or had once lived there, in every respect precisely as he does, I cannot explain. All I know is that I stood spellbound in his high-ceilinged studio room with its north-facing windows in front of the heavy mahogany bureau at which Michael said he no longer worked because the room was so cold, even in midsummer..."
Sebald seems most struck by those who lived or live quietly in adversity, "the shadow of annihilation" always hanging over them. The appropriately surnamed George Wyndham Le Strange, for example, remained on his vast property in increasing isolation, his life turning into a series of colorful anecdotes. He was "reputed to have been surrounded, in later years, by all manner of feathered creatures: by guinea fowl, pheasants, pigeons and quail, and various kinds of garden and song birds, strutting about him on the floor or flying around in the air. Some said that one summer Le Strange dug a cave in his garden and sat in it day and night like St. Jerome in the desert."
In Sebald's eyes, even the everyday comes to seem extraterrestrial--a vision intensified in Michael Hulse's beautiful rendition. His complex, allusive sentences are encased in several-pages-long paragraphs--style and subject making for painful, exquisite reading. Though most often hypersensitive to human (and animal) suffering and making few concessions to obligatory cheeriness, Sebald is not without humor. At one point, paralyzed by the presence of the past, he admits: "I bought a carton of chips at McDonald's, where I felt like a criminal wanted worldwide as I stood at the brightly lit counter, and ate them as I walked back to my hotel." The Rings of Saturn is a challenging nocturne, and the second of Sebald's four books to appear in English. The excellent news is that his novel Vertigo is already slated for translation. --Kerry Fried
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"Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings of Saturn "is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and decay. . . . The Rings of Saturn is exhilaratingly, you might say hypnotically, readable. . . . It is hard to imagine a stranger or more compelling work." The Rings of Saturn-with its curious archive of photographs-chronicles a tour across epochs as well as countryside. On his way, the narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions and links them to Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, the travels of Sir Thomas Browne's skull, and the massive bombings of WWII. Cataloging change, oblivion, and memories, he connects sugar fortunes, Joseph Conrad, and the horrors of colonizing the Belgian Congo. The narrator finds threads which run from an abandoned bridge over the River Blyth to the terrible dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and the silk industry in Norwich. "Sebald," as The New Yorker stated, "weaves his tale together with a complexity and historical sweep that easily encompasses both truth and fiction." The Emigrants (hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece-perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read") was "one of the great books of the last few years," as Michael Ondaatje noted: "and now The Rings of Saturn is a similar and as strange a triumph."
Customer Reviews:
Uncanny.......2007-08-17
I read this book and was at first pleasantly surprised. This book
is like stepping into the aftermath of a profound dream which has finished way after you first discover it. This is a great book for "literary types" like me but I think many readers will struggle with it. It also helps if you know a lot of historical stuff. I don't and I was
really struggling to understand a lot of what the author was talking about at points and I got very confused. Sebald is a brilliant man but
like another reviewer pointed out he needs a better editor. I like this book but it needs something extra to push it from being good to being
brilliant. But what do I know.
John
A book of digressions and odd tangents.......2007-07-09
It takes a unique mind to create a book like this one, an extended walking tour along the eastern coast of England that turns into a series of stories, digressions about Dutch art, Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement, the persistence of Belgium's dark colonial past, the Taiping Rebellion, the decline of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, the development of the silk industry, and many other things. At first these multiple stories seem random, but Sebald gradually reveals the connections between these disparate places and times. It also becomes clear that Sebald is drawn to contemplate human destructiveness, natural decay and eccentric individuals. He is exceptionally observant and his dominant tone is melancholy. These elegiac ruminations and memories will certainly not be everyone's cup of tea, and I found myself wondering if this part of England is really as desolate and sad as Sebald makes it seem. Nevertheless he has an ability to create a mood and an atmosphere like few other writers.
The Archaeology of Loss.......2006-11-19
Sebald is an archaeologist of loss. In this book, tied together by a barely-fictionalized account of a walking tour of the Suffolk coast, he starts with cultural detritus that would be beneath the notice of most travel writers and reaches into his reading of history and literature, his chilhood memories, even his dreams, to weave a complex elegy to vanished civilizations. Although there are fewer of the grainy photographs which give other Sebald books a documentary air, this one is closer to a straight memoir than any of the four that I have read. But its geography is less of a place than of the author's extraordinary mind: its mountains map the barren wilderness of wanton destruction; its rivers chart the forces of commercialism, colonial exploitation, and greed which are its cause. Yet the book is also illuminated by Sebald's humility, his curiosity, and his delight in the human capacity for joyful obsession, whether it be Chateaubriand's love for an English vicar's daughter, or a Suffolk farmer who spent thirty years building a model of the Temple of Jerusalem in his barn.
Sebald, the Last Great Writer of the Twentieth Century.......2006-08-24
In his third work of prose fiction (the word 'novel' seems somehow too banal for what Sebald writes), the German-born writer long resident in England takes a solitary walking trip along the English coast from Norwich to Harwich. Upon this 'travel narrative' framework, Sebald embroiders a wide-ranging meditation on human cruelty and genocide and its possible connections to the amoral 'cruelty' of nature. As Sebald walks along this lonely, decaying stretch of North Sea coast, images suggestive of the Shoah and other 20th century atrocities seem to appear everywhere, until ultimately the book becomes a portrait of a mind haunted by the Holocaust--and by the possibility that cruelty seems to be everywhere because it really IS everywhere... This is a staggering achievement.
Langour, loss, loners.......2005-09-22
To a colleague who lent this book to me, I remarked that reading Rings, I felt at times as if I was peering into my own mind. Bibliophiles, introverts, eccentrics, and loners such as the narrator and his subjects provide the ideal audience for a book about stubborn individuals, largely focused around the Suffolk coast, who resist the tide, metaphorically and practically.
Languor permeates these pages. At times, the recitation of facts about Conrad and Casement, the plot of Borges' story on Tlon, or the history of silk manufacturing seemed too much potted or borrowed to engage me with whatever additional insights I'd have expected Sebald to enrich these anecdotes. More successful are his examinations of the eroding Lowescroft, the man with the Temple of Jerusalem model, and the fittingly named LeStrange. When Sebald reports more on the local rather than the otherwise known, his concentration improves and the book nourished by these more primary sources rather than secondhand summations.
Best of all is his account of a terrible storm and its aftermath, where the trees' denudation and the stars' reclamation of the blackout skies over this stretch of the coast make for gripping imagery. His passion emerges, albeit subtly, here, and his poetry on devastation made me want to seek out his last work, On the Natural History of Destruction. Tangentially, allusions to the earlier military obliteration are made in his reveries on the RAF base and its German targets, and no doubt readers of his more-German centered work will want to read his preparatory thinking, as it were, in the hauntingly titled--if you read the epigraph--Rings of Saturn. These, symbolically, are only discussed in this part of this unclassifiable memoir/novel.
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This new series is designed especially for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, and the only one with a spectacular ring system that is easily visible from Earth. Saturn is a gas-giant, a huge world dominated by its rings and a retinue of moons. It is probably the most commonly observed and imaged planet for amateur astronomers, because it is always changing - the moons move visibly in the course of an hour, the weather systems on the planet change, and the orientation of the ring alters this way and that.
The concept of the book - and the series - is to present an up-to-date detailed description (part one); and then (part two) to consider how best to observe and record the planet, its moons and its ring system successfully.
"Saturn and How to Observe It" is a mine of information for all levels of amateur observers, from the beginner to the experienced.
Customer Reviews:
One of the first Time Machine books I had..........2005-04-11
I loved these books and having one set in the future, kind of the Time Machine series' version of a science fiction adventure, was a great thrill for me. I only took a point away because of some of the science and terms the author used, such as dilithium crystal radiation, made the book feel less realistic then it could have been.
The plot is this : radio signals have been detected from the rings of Saturn. Due to the pattern, scientists believe the signals will soon halt and resume in the year 2085. Your mission is to go into the future and find the source of the broadcast. You could be the first Earthling to meet an alien civilization. On the way you will visit many planets and meet many people of the future. Your decisions will change the future and decide if mankind makes contact with an alien life-form.
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- Wonderful study of a new concept being born
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Forming the Future: Lessons from the Saturn Corporation
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In this compelling, readable narrative, Joe Sherman explores virtually every aspect of the Saturn project, America's biggest and most publicized industrial success of the last decade. Here is the whole story--Saturn's mysterious beginnings inside General Motors in 1982; the site hunt that involved 38 states and ended in Spring Hill, Tennessee; the plant's construction and the transfer of 5,000 UAW members to a historic Southern backwater; and finally the small car's triumph in the marketplace (Consumer Reports and J.D. Powers both dubbed Saturn a made-in-America breakthrough)--all woven together into a candid, panoramic tapestry. In the Rings of Saturn has a striking immediacy: the reader sees almost first-hand GM's 1991 Annual Meeting at the Grand Ole Opry led by chairman Robert Stempel, as gadfly stockholders turn the event into a parody. We spend a week on the crankshaft machining line under the care of paternal, bearlike teamleader Bob Courtemanche, experiencing Saturn's revolutionary but troubled team structure. We even drive around with Spring Hill's flamboyant, tobacco-spitting mayor George Jones, who tells Sherman that the difference between a "Yankee" and a "damned Yankee" is "a Yankee comes here and goes home; a damned Yankee stays." Dozens of characters, from local farmers, to inspired assembly line workers, to "car smarts and gut feel" engineers, move across these pages. Through these flesh-and-blood portraits, Sherman brings to life a very American story of renewal and growth, of great hope and soured expectations, of greed and lost opportunities. And he reveals as well the downside of the project--that while the car itself is a triumph, the project has failed to provide either the learning laboratory General Motors needed or a model for positive redevelopment rural America yearns for. In the Rings of Saturn is both the anatomy of a corporate triumph and an incisive commentary on industrial renewal in the United States. And it exposes the high hopes and earthshattering disappointments that occur when big business appears in rural areas. It is a volume that will enlighten business readers, inform the automotive industry, and entertain Saturn car buyers, many of whom will think: "My little car means all this?"
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Wonderful study of a new concept being born.......1999-07-18
This was a great book. It showed how an old bureaucracy like GM could manage to set up a car company that will change how cars are made and sold into the next century. Good insight into the fighting, working, changing, struggling, and wining that has made Saturn a model for companies that want to cherish their customers and turn them into salesmen for their products. If you wonder how your Saturn got to be so unique this is the book for you.
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This WSN Special Report takes up where our first major Saturn V report (Saturn V - America's Apollo Moon Rocket, ISBN 1893472027) left off, with 129 UNIQUE drawings, illustrations, schematics, tables and charts NOT FOUND IN OUR FIRST REPORT! Since this flight manual (produced for the Apollo 8 first manned Saturn V mission) was designed for the astronauts, there is special emphasis on flight systems, events, and crew interactions. There are no muddy photographs to waste space; every page is packed with incredible details about the launch vehicle, clearly reproduced from an original NASA document. We believe that this document, uncovered by WSN research, represents a significant addition to the limited public literature on this important and fascinating historical subject! Here are just a few of the "gems" which make this document exceptionally valuable, with a truly special level of extraordinary technical detail:
* Nine great pages outlining IN-FLIGHT CONTINGENCIES AND REACTIONS - with columns for contingency, flight time, effect, sensors or displays, and mission rule. Extensive coverage of abort modes and timelines. * Three pages devoted to superb line drawings of the APOLLO CM COCKPIT EMERGENCY DETECTION SYSTEM SWITCH PANELS.
* An extremely thorough review of the S-IVB AUXILIARY PROPULSION SYSTEM CONTROL MODULE and its 150-lb and 70 lb. engines.
* Unique detailed descriptions of the FLIGHT PROGRAM and instrumentation systems.
* Much better detail of the ENGINE START and ENGINE CUTOFF sequences, with more extensive information and graphics about the STAGE SUBSYSTEMS - tanks, propellant feed, electrical, battery, instrumentation, telemetry, and more.
* A comprehensive review of the booster changes implemented prior to Apollo 8 which eliminated the deadly pogo phenomenon.
Whether or not you have our first Saturn V report, if you are a serious Saturn fanatic, you'll want this special document!
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THE BEST TECHNICAL, NUTS-AND-BOLTS DESCRIPTION OF THE AWESOME SATURN V ROCKET IN PRINT TODAY! This WSN Special Report exclusively features two of the best NASA documents on the Saturn V documents that are not available as printed on the Web. There are over 200 images, illustrations, drawings, schematics, tables and charts. A treasure-trove of facts, figures, and historical information about mans greatest engineering achievement. If you are fascinated by the Apollo era, you need this report! THERES NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT!
Customer Reviews:
A good report.......2002-08-02
This edition should be rated 4 stars for its contents, while the layout needs some comment. Really, the iussue is just a good presentation, but a deeper analysis of the missile requires accesses to an enormous amount of documents available only at manufacturer's databank or universities' libraries. So, keeping these facts in mind, the reader finds plenty of diagrams, schematics, charts and systems technical description well worth the price. The written part deals with design evolution then, for each stage, it relates details such as plumbing, tanks, structures, umbelicals fittings, engine components, instruments units and, finally, production, assembly plus launch facilities.
Since rocket theory is well examined by many books (a good benchmark work is Sutton's Rocket Propulsion Elements), this report is a pratical complement for curious undergraduate students or highly educated (in science) space buffs.
The other side of the coin refers to the volume format. Actually it should earn a value of merit of 2/3 stars because it is not a anastatic reprint but a very good photocopy in a ring binder, giving, lets say, a "professional look" to your bookshelf. Consequently, if you like an elagant tome in the rack, this is not the case.
Can you say "rip-off?".......2002-02-02
Can you say "rip-off?" That's about what this book is. This is nothing more than a bunch of badly photocopied reprints of a couple of NASA publications relating to the Saturn V, with a little bit of prefatory text so that the publishers can claim some degree of ownership. One might argue that the NASA Mission Reports are no better, but at least in that case the publishers endeavor to give value for the money: The books are nicely bound, contain color photographs on quality paper, and include CDs with additional material.
This book, on the other hand, is photocopied single-sided (!), bound (if you can call it that) in a three-ring binder, and costs almost as much as three Mission Reports. I don't think the reproduction is even actual-sized but is somewhat reduced, making many of the diagrams almost unreadable.
That being said, I was interested in the various facts and figures and construction elements of the Saturn V, particularly the various diagrams of the stages and of the engines. So it wasn't a complete waste. However, I could only recommend this book to someone who really, really wants to know the nitty-gritty details about the Saturn V. It's a waste for anyone else, and even those who fit this description will not be happy with the price or the production quality of this book.
Invaluable and indispensable reference work!.......2001-06-19
An invaluable and indispensable reference work on the Saturn V rocket! Until this reproduction came along, the best available book on the Saturn program was STAGES TO SATURN, a NASA history authored by Roger Bilstein. Bilstein's work remains unrivalled in its description of the long and difficult path from the concept of the five-engine monster to its unbelievably successful use in the Apollo and Skylab programs. However, STAGES provided only minimal information about the rocket itself, and contained few informative illustrations. On the other hand, this World Spaceflight News book - based mainly on the SATURN V NEWS REFERENCE available to the privileged few at the time of the Apollo missions - provides a wealth of detail and great technical illustrations about the rocket. Bilstein even cites the NEWS REFERENCE in his "Sources and Research Material" section. Regarding the document that forms the basis for this book, Bilstein writes that it is
[an] invaluable reference for understanding the Saturn launch vehicles [is] NASA - MSFC, SATURN V NEWS REFERENCE (1968). Produced by MSFC in cooperation with the major Saturn contractors, this three-ring loose-leaf volume illustrates essential Saturn systems, subsystems, components, and miscellaneous hardware. The accompanying text describes, in semitechnical terms, the function and operation of a bewildering array of Saturn hardware. As a means of grasping the complexities of the Saturn launch vehicle and the essentials of the different stages, including tankage, engines, and guidance, [it is] indispensable.
I couldn't agree more. All Saturn enthusiasts should own this book.
Not worth the paper it was PHOTOCOPIED on!.......2001-06-08
I was VERY disappointed with the 'quality' of how this expensive book was thrown together. A loose-leaf binder with an inkjet page glued on the front of the binder containing only photocopied pages of which NOT MANY of the diagrams were even viewable! I bought this book for scale information and the hard-to-find diagrams, most of which I could not even see....
Invaluable and indispensable book for Apollo and Saturn fans.......2001-06-07
To put it simply: this is an invaluable and indispensable reference work on the Saturn V rocket!
Until this reproduction came along, the best available book on the Saturn program was STAGES TO SATURN, a NASA history authored by Roger Bilstein. Bilstein's work remains unrivalled in its description of the long and difficult path from the concept of the five-engine monster to its unbelievably successful use in the Apollo and Skylab programs. However, STAGES provided only minimal information about the rocket itself, and contained few informative illustrations.
On the other hand, this World Spaceflight News book - based mainly on the SATURN V NEWS REFERENCE available to the privileged few at the time of the Apollo missions - provides a wealth of detail and great technical illustrations about the rocket. Bilstein even cites the NEWS REFERENCE in his "Sources and Research Material" section.
Regarding the document that forms the basis for this book, Bilstein writes:
"[an] invaluable reference for understanding the Saturn launch vehicles [is] NASA - MSFC, SATURN V NEWS REFERENCE (1968). Produced by MSFC in cooperation with the major Saturn contractors, this three-ring loose-leaf volume illustrates essential Saturn systems, subsystems, components, and miscellaneous hardware. The accompanying text describes, in semitechnical terms, the function and operation of a bewildering array of Saturn hardware. As a means of grasping the complexities of the Saturn launch vehicle and the essentials of the different stages, including tankage, engines, and guidance, [it is] indispensable."
I couldn't agree more. All Saturn enthusiasts should own this book.
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- A good sci-fi yarn for youth, albeit dated,
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Lucky Starr & The Rings of Saturn
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A good sci-fi yarn for youth, albeit dated,.......1999-06-09
This volume is the eighth and last in the Lucky Starr series for teenagers, originally published under the pseudonym Paul French. A secret agent for Earth's enemy, Sirius, has stolen some intelligence and escaped to the moons of Saturn. Lucky Starr and his friend Bigman race to Saturn only to discover an enemy base set up on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Somehow they have to return to Earth and force the Sirians out of the Solar System without starting an interstellar war. The story line in Asimov's novel involves the settling of an "enemy" of Earth within Earth's region of space. It's amazing how close Asimov was to an analogous situation in recent history. A short while after this book appeared, there was a revolution in Cuba which resulted in the Soviet Union having an ally close to the U.S. mainland. More moons are now known to orbit Saturn than were known in 1958; there are at least twenty satellites. In the novel, two moons play central roles: Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, and Mimas, which Asimov (in 1958) states is the moon closest to the planet. However, we now know of closer moons. A photograph of Mimas taken by a fly-by probe shows a giant impact crater having a diameter about one-third that of Mimas. The crater, now named Hershel, has walls of about 16000 feet in height and a central mountain reaching up to 20000 feet. Just as in Asimov's novel, Mimas appears to be made up of mostly water ice, with 20%-to-50% rock. Titan has a substantial atmosphere, mostly nitrogen with some methane.
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