Dawn's first orbit, including RC3, March 6, 2015- June 15, 2015 |
Dawn's first orbit, including RC3, March 6, 2015- June 15, 2015 |
Apr 26 2015, 11:27 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 27-March 15 Member No.: 7426 |
It's said that when Dawn's mission is finished, they'll park it permanently in orbit of Ceres. A good thing they won't have to feed coins to De meter.
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Apr 27 2015, 01:17 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...aaaand, Dudley's banned.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 27 2015, 12:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 723 Joined: 13-June 04 Member No.: 82 |
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Apr 27 2015, 02:06 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
That was a joke, Ceres is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Demeter. Unless you were also making a joke about making puns on this thread. I guess the smiley was a clue. It is rather unforgivable -------------------- |
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Apr 27 2015, 02:59 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 27-March 15 Member No.: 7426 |
It's just that I feel it's important to get some pun out of life!
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Apr 29 2015, 02:28 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
Looks like the Dawn website just underwent a major overhaul...
dawn.jpl.nasa.gov At first glance, I can't find where the "Where is Dawn now" simulated views have gone. |
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Apr 29 2015, 03:43 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 11-March 15 Member No.: 7412 |
Yes. It looks like they've changed the user interface to be more tablet friendly, as many web sites are starting to do. Unfortunately, my primary web access (at work and at home) are desk tops, which aren't as user friendly as for these tablet friendly sites.
The "where is Dawn now" can be found by selecting the Menu button, then clicking (or tapping) on Mission. About a quarter of the way down the Mission page, you'll see "Where is Dawn now?" followed by a link labled "> View". Or you can just use this link here: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/live_shots.html -------------------- In satellite operations, schedules are governed by the laws of physics and bounded by the limits of technology.
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Apr 29 2015, 05:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
all this "portrait" formatting on LANDSCAPE 16X9 screens !!!
( a TON of sites are doing this so...) makes one REALLY WANT some of the by-gone days of what sites USED to look like CODE w3m http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/ nasa.gov 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961231235847/...//www.nasa.gov/ |
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Apr 29 2015, 05:52 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I really don't like this new trend. It's a fad among web designers - like the one a year or two ago where everything on the screen would flash and shake as the cursor moved over it. The most basic principles of good design are being thrown out of the window, mainly because designers need to keep changing sites or they are out of a job.
If UMSF goes the same way I'm quitting! Or at least I would if there was anywhere else to go. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Apr 29 2015, 06:26 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 9-August 12 From: London, UK Member No.: 6521 |
A shame we're reduced to discussing website design, interesting though it is. I too prefer pages rather than the scroll-for-ever sites of today.
Anyone have any idea when we might see the next images, presumably there are some great shots since getting into orbit that we're not seeing yet? |
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Apr 29 2015, 06:35 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
The most basic principles of good design are being thrown out of the window, mainly because designers need to keep changing sites or they are out of a job. I can't stand this shift to 'trendy' websites either....but I have had visibility into the process behind the redesign for many of JPLs pages...and I can tell you, the demand for it isn't coming from designers, it's coming from management. And when it's winning awards all over the place - it's not going to go away any time soon : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4566 |
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Apr 29 2015, 06:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
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Apr 29 2015, 07:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310 |
New RC3 image is out at the photojournal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19319
Think it might show one of the interesting big craters near the south pole? -------------------- |
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Apr 29 2015, 08:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310 |
Following up on that image, is the relatively crater-free area above the crater in this crop part of a massive landslide? Have we observed something similar on other bodies?
The crater floor also appears to be of a relatively young age. -------------------- |
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Apr 29 2015, 08:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
It looks more like a massive ejecta sheet to me, and we do see those commonly on our own Moon. They are most often seen, on the Moon, as ejecta from large basin impacts. As a comparison, take a look at the Fra Mauro formation on the Moon's near side.
In fact, this resembles that kind of structure quite a bit. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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