Colleague and friend Dr. Jeff Cuzzi of NASA’s Ames Research Center is one of three authors of a book presenting some of the beautiful images and discoveries from the first part of Cassini’s mission at Saturn. Jeff is the Cassini Interdisciplinary Scientist for Rings and Dust. His role is to look at the ring observations with the big picture in mind and make sure that we provincial instrument scientists don’t let something valuable slip through the cracks as we pursue our own particular observations. Saturn: A New View, while sadly lacking my own contribution (just look at the header of this blog) to the Cassini Beautiful Image Database (not a real database, but come to think of it, maybe not a bad idea), is nevertheless an excellent survey of the Saturn system and how our view of it is being transformed almost daily by fresh results from the intrepid spacecraft. I like it so much I got three copies in time for Christmas.