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.

...aaaand, Dudley's banned.

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

It's just that I feel it's important to get some pun out of life!

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.

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

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




nasa.gov 1996
http://web.archive.org/web/19961231235847/...//www.nasa.gov/

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

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?

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

with this getting off topic

i think most of us HAVE recently unbookmarked sites we used to use
Do to the now "handheld TELEPHONE !!!! " trend

but on a but of a different note
i DO find that the MOST useful sites ( content wise) look like this


a FTP page for the dawn spice kernels

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?

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.

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