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outcolder's review against another edition
3.0
An inside view of the Titan related projects on the Cassini mission, relatively easy to understand for the non-specialist... Titan is a planet sized moon with lakes of frozen methane, weather, mountains, dunes, and very possibly a huge underground ocean of water-ammonia. I like thinking about Titan especially when I want to be alone... even Mars seems too warm and crowded by comparison, but this book is as much about the different instruments on Cassini and Huygens and the people who designed and built them and whether or not they worked as expected than it is about a huge, far-away frozen ball of hydrocarbons. I was hoping more for the latter, you know, like an atlas with the "here be dragons" for the bits they haven't mapped yet, but the stories about the mission and Ralph Lorenz's media appearances are cool. Well, I think, now that I've read this, my nerd-cred is at 100%. Ben out.
esko's review against another edition
slow-paced
3.5
Not a fan of the writing...I skimmed through the 2nd part of the book.
It has a lot of repetitive parts.
It has a lot of repetitive parts.
speljamr's review against another edition
3.0
A good book about the Cassini mission, particularly the Huygens probe portion of the mission. A little dry for the average reader due to the technical information, but if that doesn't bother you there's lots of behind the scenes information on how a space mission unfolds.
satyridae's review
3.0
Densely scientific but still quite interesting. It's a slog, there's no denying. But worthwhile, if you like that sort of thing.
panxa's review
This just wasn't what I wanted. It focuses pretty heavily on data, and I was looking for more of a historical focus.
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