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The joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is the most ambitious planetary mission since the VEGA mission to Venus and Halley in 1985/86 and the Viking arbiters and landers to Mars in 1976. This volume describes the mission, the orbiter spacecraft, the Titan atmospheric probe and the mission design in articles written by its project scientists and engineering team. These are followed by five articles from each of the discipline working groups discussing the existing knowledge of the Saturnian system and their goals for the mission. Finally, each of the Huygens entry probe instrument teams describes their instruments and measurement objectives. These instruments include an atmospheric structure instrument, an aerosol pyrolyser, an imager/radiometer, a gas chromatograph, a surface science package and a radio science investigation. This book is of interest to all potential users of the Cassini-Huygens data, to those who wish to learn about the planned scientific return from the Cassini-Huygens mission and those curious about the processes occurring on this most fascinating planet.

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The Cassini/Huygens Mission to the Saturnian System.- The Huygens Probe: Science, Payload and Mission Overview.- Touring the Saturnian System.- An Introduction to the Design of the Cassini Spacecraft.- The Huygens Probe System Design.- Cassini-Huygens Investigations of Satellite Surfaces and Interiors.- Saturn's Rings: Pre-Cassini Status and Mission Goals.- Magnetospheric and Plasma Science with Cassini-Huygens.- Touring the Saturnian System: The Atmospheres of Titan and Saturn.- Organic Chemistry and Exobiology on Titan.- The Characterisation of Titan's Atmospheric Physical Properties by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI).- Huygens Probe Aerosol Collector Pyrolyser Experiment.- The Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) Experiment on the Huygens Entry Probe of Titan.- The Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer for the Huygens Probe.- Huygens' Surface Science Package.- The Huygens Doppler Wind Experiment.

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"For a mission that will take at least 18 years from conception to completion, it is useful for everyone to be reminded of why it was proposed and how it will be accomplished. This is an essential and convenient reference work for any researcher interested in the Saturnian system and the treasure trove of data that Cassini-Huygens will return."
(Carl Murray, The Observatory, 124)

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"For a mission that will take at least 18 years from conception to completion, it is useful for everyone to be reminded of why it was proposed and how it will be accomplished. This is an essential and convenient reference work for any researcher interested in the Saturnian system and the treasure trove of data that Cassini-Huygens will return." (Carl Murray, The Observatory, 124)

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