Saturn from Cassini-Huygens
This book reviews our current knowledge of Saturn featuring the latest results obtained by the Cassini-Huygens mission. A global author team addresses the planet’s origin and evolution, internal structure, composition and chemistry, the atmosphere and ion
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Michele K. Dougherty Larry W. Esposito Stamatios M. Krimigis Editors
Saturn from Cassini-Huygens
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Editors Michele K. Dougherty Imperial College The Blackett Laboratory Prince Consort Road London United Kingdom SW7 2AZ [email protected] Larry W. Esposito University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA [email protected]
Stamatios M. Krimigis Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. 11100 John Hopkins Rd. Laurel MD 20723 USA and Center for Space Research and Technology Academy of Athens Soranou Efesiou 4 Athens 11527 Greece [email protected]
Front cover figure: This false-color image of Saturn was constructed from three infrared images taken at 2, 3, and 5 microns wavelength respectively cast to red, green and blue. Credit: University of Arizona and NASA JPL, by Virginia Pasek and Dyer Lytle (Cassini VIMS) Back cover figure: A dynamic, rotating ring current around Saturn Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - Academy of Athens - NASA (Krimigis, S. M., N. Sergis, D. G. Mitchell, D. C. Hamilton and N. Krupp, Nature, 450, 1050, 2007)
ISBN 978-1-4020-9216-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9217-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9217-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009935175 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This book is one of two volumes meant to capture, to the extent practical, the scientific legacy of the Cassini-Huygens prime mission, a landmark in the history of planetary exploration. As the most ambitious and interdisciplinary planetary exploration mission flown to date, it has extended our knowledge of the Saturn system to levels of detail at least an order of magnitude beyond that gained from all previous missions to Saturn. Nestled in the brilliant light of the new and deep understanding of the Saturn planetary system is the shiny nugget that is the spectacularly successful collaboration of individuals, organizations and governments in the achievement of Cassini-Huygens. In some ways the partnerships formed and lessons learned may be the most enduring legacy of Cassini-Huygens. The broad, international coalition that is Cassini-Huygens is now conducting the Cassini Equinox Mission and planning the Cassini Solstice Mission, and in a major expansion of those fruitful efforts, has extended the collaboration to the study of new flagship missions to both Jupiter and Saturn. Such ventures have and will continue to enrich us all, and evoke a very optimistic vision of the future of internation
