Dawn approaches Vesta, Approach phase, 3 May to 16 July 2011 |
Dawn approaches Vesta, Approach phase, 3 May to 16 July 2011 |
 May 3 2011, 03:44 PM
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May 18 2011, 04:15 PM
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Hopefully we'll get another picture soon. Meanwhile, I took the first image and smoothed it from the big pixel format. No new information but it looks better... maybe!
Phil 
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Holder of the Two Leashes Dawn approaches Vesta May 3 2011, 03:44 PM
elakdawalla If you looked at the Dawn Journal earlier this mor... May 3 2011, 07:34 PM elakdawalla I went through Marc's journals and summarized ... May 3 2011, 07:38 PM bagelverse Be nice to get an approach sequence as was done fo... May 3 2011, 10:39 PM Phil Stooke OK, Dawn team, this is the bit where you release a... May 5 2011, 04:14 PM elakdawalla Would be nice. All they've released lately is... May 5 2011, 05:07 PM
Stefan QUOTE (elakdawalla @ May 5 2011, 07:07 PM... May 5 2011, 07:34 PM Phil Stooke Wow, that's scary! Little bits of Gaspra,... May 5 2011, 05:12 PM Stu Ahhh... I think they're confusing DAWN with an... May 5 2011, 06:16 PM Phil Stooke While that might look like a good idea, I should p... May 5 2011, 10:20 PM Greg Hullender I note we just passed the 1M km mark.
http://neo... May 9 2011, 04:02 AM mchan OMG! Shades of MCO! It shows Dawn at 1M ... May 9 2011, 05:24 AM djellison Given that the metric value is expressed to one si... May 9 2011, 05:37 AM ElkGroveDan The correct figure is 5.168 million furlongs. May 9 2011, 01:22 PM stevesliva I prefer one gigameter, pronounced "jigameter... May 9 2011, 04:22 PM ugordan NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing As... May 11 2011, 03:29 PM tek_604 Press release from the Framing Camera Team @ MPS:
... May 12 2011, 12:39 PM tek_604 New website for Dawn Framing Camera @ MPS:
Dawn F... May 18 2011, 07:05 AM centsworth_II QUOTE (tek_604 @ May 18 2011, 02:05 AM) N... May 18 2011, 12:55 PM MahFL Well it at least appears to still be there, which ... May 18 2011, 04:30 PM Decepticon My understanding is Dawn will reach HST resolution... May 18 2011, 05:48 PM kenny Vesta has fond assocations for some of us. It was... May 19 2011, 12:40 PM Stu haha! I remember those! I wouldn't be ... May 19 2011, 01:15 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Stu @ May 19 2011, 06:15 AM) ... t... May 19 2011, 03:08 PM MahFL I liked those Vesta Chow Mein meals ! May 19 2011, 05:17 PM AndyG And I liked the crunchy noodles.
Makes me wonder ... May 19 2011, 07:12 PM Phil Stooke OK, Dawn team! This is the bit where you rele... May 22 2011, 09:01 PM Greg Hullender QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 22 2011, 01:01 P... May 23 2011, 01:31 AM Hungry4info You aren't excited about this, are you?
I w... May 22 2011, 10:55 PM SFJCody Pictures taken now should have almost twice the re... May 23 2011, 12:28 AM Explorer1 And posting on a Sunday would be a big event for a... May 23 2011, 04:04 AM JohnVV Basically the same as Phil's
there is not muc... May 23 2011, 07:46 AM SFJCody Can't wait! If you consider the imagery of... May 23 2011, 10:06 AM antipode While we are all waiting for the next DAWN images,... May 26 2011, 09:11 AM charborob Go to this page, and scroll down to "Vesta... May 26 2011, 12:19 PM antipode Thankyou sir - that's EXACTLY what I was looki... May 28 2011, 03:57 AM Paolo a new Dawn Journal is out
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov... May 28 2011, 05:48 PM Toma B These are few last sentences of text about DAWN th... May 28 2011, 07:48 PM CAP-Team According to Celestia, Vesta is now 3' 32,5... May 29 2011, 07:29 PM elakdawalla Would sure be nice if we could confirm that with a... May 30 2011, 01:53 AM Astro0 I'm surprised that we haven't seen any mor... May 30 2011, 10:04 AM Phil Stooke I did! Sometimes it's more a matter of pe... May 30 2011, 11:27 AM tek_604 For those of you on facebook, the Dawn Framing Cam... May 31 2011, 06:29 AM SFJCody If they get enough 'likes' will they relea... May 31 2011, 10:57 AM Bart Well I just 'liked' it, anyway. Jun 1 2011, 04:16 AM elakdawalla QUOTE (tek_604 @ May 30 2011, 11:29 PM) F... Jun 1 2011, 01:34 PM tek_604 QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jun 1 2011, 03:34 PM... Jun 1 2011, 02:49 PM Stu I think it's a great shame we're not seein... Jun 1 2011, 01:56 PM ngunn QUOTE (Stu @ Jun 1 2011, 02:56 PM) this l... Jun 1 2011, 09:02 PM volcanopele Seriously what are you guys expecting at this poin... Jun 1 2011, 09:11 PM ngunn QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jun 1 2011, 10:11 PM... Jun 1 2011, 09:33 PM Stu I don't think it's so much now about hopin... Jun 1 2011, 09:50 PM centsworth_II My guess is that the Dawn team planned image relea... Jun 1 2011, 09:55 PM ngunn QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Jun 1 2011, 10:55 ... Jun 1 2011, 10:13 PM volcanopele Don't get me wrong, I would love to see more i... Jun 1 2011, 10:06 PM Stu I don't think this is "uproar"... th... Jun 1 2011, 10:13 PM JohnVV i am in agreement with the few above this
At this... Jun 1 2011, 10:16 PM ngunn QUOTE (JohnVV @ Jun 1 2011, 11:16 PM) At ... Jun 1 2011, 10:32 PM ElkGroveDan I agree. I find this attitude of, "there... Jun 1 2011, 10:34 PM ngunn QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jun 1 2011, 11:34 PM... Jun 1 2011, 10:52 PM Holder of the Two Leashes QUOTE (JohnVV @ Jun 1 2011, 04:16 PM) ...... Jun 2 2011, 04:18 AM elakdawalla volcanopele, would your point of view change if I ... Jun 1 2011, 10:30 PM volcanopele If that marks the beginning of daily image release... Jun 1 2011, 10:35 PM elakdawalla I don't think that daily image releases are an... Jun 1 2011, 11:05 PM ngunn The measure of public involvement needs to be part... Jun 1 2011, 11:19 PM ElkGroveDan I get the feeling that it's going to be more l... Jun 1 2011, 11:20 PM djellison Right now it's like OSIRIS on Rosetta. Uwe Ke... Jun 2 2011, 12:19 AM Bart They will have to upload it all to PDS eventually,... Jun 2 2011, 01:55 AM elakdawalla Yes, that's true. No matter how stingy the PI... Jun 2 2011, 02:08 AM lyford QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jun 1 2011, 06:08 PM... Jun 2 2011, 05:08 AM eoincampbell I hereby add my voice to this -request for images- Jun 2 2011, 02:29 AM Greg Hullender I remember when Pioneer 10 flew past Jupiter, almo... Jun 2 2011, 04:26 AM djellison QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Jun 1 2011, 09:26... Jun 2 2011, 04:44 AM tanjent Just to play the Devil's advocate:
If you wan... Jun 2 2011, 08:10 AM centsworth_II QUOTE (tanjent @ Jun 2 2011, 04:10 AM) ..... Jun 2 2011, 12:52 PM Astro0 Jobs' would stick an Apple logo on it, tell yo... Jun 2 2011, 09:29 AM tanjent Well, if is some kind of scripted marketing ploy, ... Jun 2 2011, 10:30 AM SFJCody http://www.dawn.mps.mpg.de/typo3temp/pics/597c5396... Jun 2 2011, 11:37 AM djellison Marketing and Outreach are not the same. There is... Jun 2 2011, 01:45 PM Sunspot In the past NASA have had "Solar System Ambas... Jun 2 2011, 05:09 PM Norm Hartnett The silence seems to be drawing some attention.
h... Jun 3 2011, 04:02 PM belleraphon1 Am sending the same message to Emily's blog em... Jun 3 2011, 09:31 PM jsheff I totally share the desire to see as many images a... Jun 3 2011, 11:53 PM jsheff Actually, the Flight Operations Team has been very... Jun 4 2011, 01:03 AM lyford QUOTE (jsheff @ Jun 3 2011, 05:03 PM) Act... Jun 4 2011, 06:29 AM Bjorn Jonsson I thought image release policies like Dawn's h... Jun 4 2011, 01:35 AM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (tanjent @ Jun 2 2011, 01:10 AM) Fo... Jun 4 2011, 04:41 AM Decepticon Im not to worried about pics yet.
When dawns res... Jun 4 2011, 02:14 PM djellison Then get worried - that's right about now. Jun 4 2011, 02:51 PM Decepticon QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 4 2011, 10:51 AM) ... Jun 4 2011, 06:41 PM Juramike I wrote to a member of the Dawn E/PO Team and rece... Jun 4 2011, 03:03 PM djellison QUOTE (Juramike @ Jun 4 2011, 07:03 AM) C... Jun 4 2011, 03:10 PM ElkGroveDan It's really just a case of them wanting to hav... Jun 4 2011, 03:53 PM tanjent Marc Rayman provides great commentary, and I appre... Jun 4 2011, 03:56 PM djellison QUOTE (tanjent @ Jun 4 2011, 07:56 AM) Wh... Jun 4 2011, 04:02 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (tanjent @ Jun 4 2011, 08:56 AM) Th... Jun 4 2011, 04:06 PM Bunker9603 I sent several emails to members of the DAWN team.... Jun 4 2011, 04:35 PM nprev Hmm. So minimal manpower is the possible reason fo... Jun 4 2011, 05:41 PM djellison The second week in June starts in <48hrs
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