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Автор: Christopher T.Russell
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 1402031475
Количество страниц: 502
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 8.5 Мб
Каталожный номер: 47290
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At this writing the Cassini spacecraft has fired its engine and successfully inserted itself and its precious cargo of scientific instruments into orbit, the first step of its exploration of the Saturnian system. The suspense is not over, however. While exciting images of the rings have been captured, an exotic composition of Phoebe sensed by the mapping spectrometer and unexpected panoply of magnetic waves and plasma dynamics encountered on the incoming trajectory and initial orbit, the Huygens probe is still on board and the first close flyby of Titan has not taken place. Not until Christmas Day will the probe be released. Navigators are still checking their calculations,worrying about known unknowns like the mass of Saturn’s moons that could cause ever so small a deviation from the planned trajectory of the probe.
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