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How to explore Saturn and all its moons? Welcome to orbit, more than a billion km from Earth to discover what Saturn’s superb rings are made of. But also what is hidden in the unique atmosphere of Titan under its mysterious mists of methane, or even in the underground ocean of Enceladus…
We find ourselves in orbit more than a billion kilometers from Earth, to explore Saturn, its superb rings and all its moons… 82 moons in all, 82 icy satellites unveiled to date around the sixth planet of our solar system , starting with the impressive Titan and its unique atmosphere, or the volcanic Enceladus.
“Les mondes de Saturne”, to use the title of the fabulous collective work published by Belin and co-signed by our three guests: Alice le Gallspecialist in the surfaces of the solar system, Sandrine Guerletspecialist in the atmosphere of Saturn and Sandrine Vinatier, a specialist in the atmosphere of Titan. They make us discover the fabulous landscapes that hide under the mists of Titan, in the heart of the monstrous storms on Saturn and even in the frozen underground ocean of Enceladus.
Welcome to an incredible, interstellar and staggering journey around the question: how to explore Saturn and all its moons?
The first space answers come to us from the specialist in the rings of Saturn, the late André Brahic, a brilliant astrophysicist with infectious enthusiasm, to whom our guests pay homage. He may be listening to us, who knows, orbiting the rings of Neptune he had discovered…
The work The Worlds of Saturn which has just been published by Belin.
With Alice Le Gall (teacher-researcher in Planetology at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and specialist in the surfaces and sub-surfaces of the solar system at the Atmospheres, Environments, Space Observations Laboratory)
Sandrine Guerlet (CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), in Paris, specializing in the study of planetary atmospheres (Earth, Mars, Saturn, etc.)
Sandrine Vinatier (planetologist at LESIA and specialist in the atmosphere of Titan).