Posted on 04/21/2015 5:23:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: You can explore asteroid Vesta. Recently, NASA's robotic spaceship Dawn visited Vesta, the second largest object in our Solar System's main asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. During a year-long stopover, Dawn's cameras photographed Vesta's entire surface, documenting all of the minor planet's major mountains and craters. These images have now been combined into a digital model that allows anyone with a full-featured browser to fly all around Vesta, virtually, and even zoom in on interesting surface features, by just dragging and clicking. If desired, the initially flat 2D map can be wrapped into a nearly spherical object by clicking on the 3D icon at the bottom. Dawn departed Vesta in 2012 and is now just beginning to photograph and explore the mysteries of the largest object in the asteroid belt: dwarf-planet Ceres.
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[Credit: NASA, JPL, LMMP, SSERVI, USGS, DLR]
There is no big one today, and I couldn't get the simulation to load on the newer (w8.1) laptop (timed out error), so I'm not sure what anything does or looks like, but hey, it's on NASA. ;')
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Worked on my laptop (Win8.1, Chrome). It is fantastic.
Wireless or wired?
WiFi via cable connection.
Cool.
Now I want to 3D print it.
In 1:1 scale.
It would take a couple of star systems full of planets just to grow enough paper. :’)
Thanks m, that’s the link that lives under the graphic in the ping message as well.
Same hard/software I tried it on. I got an outline, otherwise, bupkis. :’(
OK, on the main PC no graphic or link showed up there, got the link right from the APOD site. It did come in fine on the other Win7Pro laptop ;)
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