Voyages to Saturn. NASA SP-451
Washington, DC: NASA, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Quarto. ix, [1], 227, [3] pages. Wraps. Profusely illus. (many in color). Maps. Appendices. Glossary. Reading list. Index. Some wear cover and spine edges. David Morrison (born 26 June 1940) is an American astronomer, a senior scientist at the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Morrison is the former director of the Carl Sagan Center for Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute and of the NASA Lunar Science Institute. He is the past Director of Space at NASA Ames. Morrison is credited as the founder of the multi-disciplinary field of astrobiology. Morrison is best known for his work in risk assessment of near Earth objects such as asteroids and comets. Asteroid 2410 Morrison was named in his honor for his work on the subject since 1991. He has published 12 books and over 150 papers primarily on Planetary Science, Astrobiology and Near Earth Object subjects. The Voyager spacecraft were outstanding successes in their serial flybys of Saturn--returning far more new information than had been collected in three centuries of Earth observation. It would be well to remember that these are risky ventures, involving intricate mechanisms dispatched hundreds of millions of miles to perform subtle and delicate measurements, traversing immense distances of cold, dark, airless space, and surviving unexplored fields of particles and magnetic force. Condition: fair to good.
Keywords: Spacecraft, NASA, Saturn, Voyager Project, Space Exploration, Astronautics, Planetary Rings, Interferometer, Enceladus, Cassini, Magnetosphere, Pioneer spacecraft, Titan, Tethys
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