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Crisp New Detail Revealed in Stunning New Ceres Photo
discovery.com ^
| May 28, 2015 05:50 PM ET
| Ian O'Neill
Posted on 05/28/2015 5:30:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is beginning to get up-close and personal with dwarf planet Ceres, as this latest image shows.
In this photo, which was snapped by the orbiting spacecraft at an altitude of 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) on May 23, imaged the landscape at a resolution of 480 meters per pixel, revealing craters and craters of craters — the divots blasted out of the surface by the resulting impact debris. Of particular note are the apparent horizontal lines of craters or gullies that appear throughout the field of view.
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: ceres
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A new view of Ceres' surface shows finer details coming into view as NASA's Dawn spacecraft spirals down to increasingly lower orbits. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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posted on
05/28/2015 5:30:38 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Any better pics of the lights/alien mining operation?
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posted on
05/28/2015 5:32:10 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: BenLurkin
i think i see Tywin Lannister’s home in the lower left
To: Farmer Dean
No......not yet.
But I don’t think it’s because NASA is scrubbing the data or hiding anything.
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posted on
05/28/2015 5:33:16 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
The highlights being on the upper rims of the craters is making my mind want to see them as humps rather than depressions. Rotate my Kindle 90 degrees and they become depressions.
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05/28/2015 5:41:57 PM PDT
by
Yardstick
To: BenLurkin
Odd center lines in the middle of the crater. If they're impact lines, the impactors hit at the same place while traveling 120 degrees apart. So they couldn't have been traveling together, yet - there they are.
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05/28/2015 5:43:44 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: BenLurkin
Its the tracks for Moon Beam Davi’s high speed train.
To: BenLurkin
Still no explanation for the linear and parallel strings of craters? I thought not. Gravity driven cosmology cannot explain them. The Electric Universe cosmology can.
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05/28/2015 5:55:49 PM PDT
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Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
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posted on
05/28/2015 6:03:41 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: BenLurkin
...meters per pixel...
Did they mean “pixels per meter” ?
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05/28/2015 6:10:33 PM PDT
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Blennos
To: Crazieman
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05/28/2015 6:13:06 PM PDT
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Swordmaker
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To: Talisker
“Odd center lines in the middle of the crater. If they're impact lines, the impactors hit at the same place while traveling 120 degrees apart. So they couldn't have been traveling together, yet - there they are. “
It's 20 after 2 you stupid Vulcan.
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05/28/2015 6:14:19 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
To: BenLurkin
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05/28/2015 6:14:23 PM PDT
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9thLife
(The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.)
To: 9thLife
How did you cover those nail holes? I can never seem to get the right amount of spackle.
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posted on
05/28/2015 6:15:47 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Ex-girlfriend used to use toothpaste for plugging holes in the apartment prior to moving out.
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posted on
05/28/2015 6:17:36 PM PDT
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9thLife
(The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.)
To: 9thLife
the apartment wall, that is.
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posted on
05/28/2015 6:18:29 PM PDT
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9thLife
(The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.)
To: Blennos
Did they mean “pixels per meter” ? Nope. At these distances, it probably is meters per pixel. Recall that Ceres is about 950 kilometers, or 950,000 Meters in diameter. . . and consider the field of view of the camera. Any thing that gets a portion of the surface would be 1/2 of pi X 950 or 2,984.5/2 or Columbus (grin). . . 1492 kilometers, 1,492,000 meters in the field of view.
The camera on Dawn was made about nine to ten years ago. . . and it's pixel count is not up to the level of modern digital cameras. So "meters per pixel" is correct at this time.
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05/28/2015 6:23:20 PM PDT
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Swordmaker
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To: Blennos
Did they mean “pixels per meter” ? Oh, and the visible hemisphere would have approximately
567,450,173,000 square meters. Again, yes, meters per pixel.
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05/28/2015 6:27:44 PM PDT
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Swordmaker
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To: Blennos
Oops, dropped a calculation: Actual answer:
Approximately 708,821,800,000 Meters2
There was something hanging fire in my calculator.
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05/28/2015 6:33:51 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: 9thLife
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