Lifting Titan's Veil: Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn
- ISBN-10
- 0521793483
- ISBN-13
- 9780521793483
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-05-16
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Ralph Lorenz, Jacqueline Mitton
Description
The authors use information gathered over nearly four centuries to describe Saturn's moon Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system, and what we know about it based on observations from astronomers, results from the Voyager missions, and other sources.
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