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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Jun 4 2011, 01:03 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Cambridge, MA Member No.: 411 |
Actually, the Flight Operations Team has been very good about keeping the public informed, with the periodic Dawn Journals. And they seem to appreciate the importance of these first blurry images. Here's Marc Rayman from the latest Dawn Journal:
"So far, the images reveal little more than the desired important information of where Vesta appears against the background of stars. And yet, in a sense they show much more. After its long and lonely voyage through the vast emptiness of interplanetary space, most of the time far from anything but bits of dust and the occasional insignificant rock, an alien world is finally coming into view. Although too far now to do more than illuminate a handful of pixels in the camera, the small disc of Vesta stands out as the brightest and largest object visible to the explorer except the master of the solar system, the sun. The pictures are visible proof of Dawn's progress from an intriguing concept not so many years ago to a distant spaceship about to orbit an uncharted protoplanet, the second most massive body between Mars and Jupiter." So, yes, more, please! - John Sheff Cambridge, MA |
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Jun 4 2011, 06:29 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Actually, the Flight Operations Team has been very good about keeping the public informed, with the periodic Dawn Journals. I have to say that I have enjoyed these immensely and look forward to Marc Rayman's writing each month. Very informative and I have learned quite a bit since they started in 2006! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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