Books by Ralph Lorenz

Dr. Ralph Lorenz is a planetary scientist on the Principal Professional Staff of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD, USA. He is a member of the Cassini Radar team, and helped to develop the Huygens Surface Science Package. He has played a major role in the definition of a range of US and European Titan mission concepts, from airships and hot-air balloons, through airplanes, landers and even a submarine. Thomson-Reuters Sciencewatch in 2011 named Ralph Lorenz as one of the world's top planetary scientists by impact. In 1990-1991 he worked as an engineer for the European Space Agency on the early design of the Huygens probe. Examples of the penetrometer instrument he designed and built at Kent are presently on the surface of Titan and on display in the Science Museum in London.