Any good recent book on Saturn and its moons?

[Ivan Viehoff]

Has anyone produced a good book on Saturn and its moons taking advantage of all the Cassini stuff yet?

I've searched Amazon from time to time, and all I can find is some extraordinarily expensive (UKP 90) book for the academic market from Springer.

[Disinfo Agent]

Science or science fiction?

[Ivan Viehoff]

Science. The alternative never even occurred to me (there are science fiction books about saturn based on Cassini data?) But now it does occur to me that saying "good" wasn't very clever.

So for comparison, this is what I consider a "good" book on planetary science. http://www.amazon.com/New-Solar-System-Kelly-Beatty/dp/0521641837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259767675&sr=8-1

But it's 10 years old now, and we have learned so much more. I was hoping a new edition might be in the offing. But actually there is so much wonderful stuff from Cassini I thought I would like a longer monograph on Saturn. But probably not a UKP 90 monograph intended for academic libraries.

[Ilya]

Has anyone produced a good book on Saturn and its moons taking advantage of all the Cassini stuff yet?

Yes: Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored (http://www.amazon.com/Titan-Unveiled-Saturns-Mysterious-Explored/dp/0691125872/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1) by Ralph Lorenz. Except it concentrates on Titan, obviously.

David Harland (http://www.amazon.com/David-M.-Harland/e/B001HP8B8K/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1) published this kind of book about Jupiter, taking advantage of Galileo stuff, and plans to do same for Cassini in a few years.

[Disinfo Agent]

Science. The alternative never even occurred to me (there are science fiction books about saturn based on Cassini data?) But now it does occur to me that saying "good" wasn't very clever.Nor was posting your question in this forum, IMHO. "Q&A" would have been better for your purposes.

[Ivan Viehoff]

"Books" is the first word of the topic description of this forum, so it would in general seem to be the first place to come for a question about a book, rather than one about information. Though I understand what you are saying, I think I nonetheless got a good answer from Ilya, for which thanks.