Dawn data in the PDS |
Dawn data in the PDS |
Feb 15 2012, 12:55 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Hey folks, Christmas came just a little bit late this year...
http://dawnpub.igpp.ucla.edu QUOTE DAWN DATA RELEASE: LEVEL 1A DATA FROM APPROACH AND SURVEY It is a LOT of data. Just the Vesta Approach includes about 2000 FC images! Wow!!!The Dawn project has created a public website that is available to serve the cruise and Vesta data sets that have been delivered to the Planetary Data System (PDS) while the data are still under review. Data are available from all three Dawn instruments, the Framing Camera (FC), the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIR), and the Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND). The data that are currently available are raw data, in engineering units, sometimes referred to as EDRs by the PDS or as NASA level-1a data. Additional data sets will be added when they are submitted to the PDS. The Dawn website is located at: http://dawnpub.igpp.ucla.edu Users of these data should exercise caution. Invariably there will be errors or omissions in the documentation. Please report any problems... I think that the first thing I'm going to work on is that approach sequence/movie that I wish I'd had in real time. The rotation of Vesta through the image sequences makes color composition very hard, but I am sure there are people here who are up to it. I hope someone here can come up with a pretty color global shot that I can put into a comparison montage! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jan 5 2015, 11:45 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Fantastic work, Bjorn.
FYI to all, the original plan (or at least the mission requirement) for Dawn at Vesta was for there to be *no* imaging during LAMO -- the fact we have anything, discontinuous though it might be, is terrific. Here are some relevant notes from an interview I did with Marc Rayman in preparation for a Sky & Tel article on Dawn at Ceres that's going to press soon. QUOTE Marc: Our original plan for Vesta LAMO was to not take pictures. Ultimately we did, and got an entire surface map, but our plan for Ceres is to take images. It's not a priority -- we don't have a requirement -- this is a way of illustrating that the most important objectives of LAMO are neither in imaging or visible and infrared spectrometry. It's gamma ray spectrometry, the neutron spectrometry, and gravity, and that's what drives us to LAMO.
-------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jan 6 2015, 01:00 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 10-September 06 Member No.: 1129 |
Forgive me if this was inferred in your post, but do you or anyone else know if we'll get true (or approximately true) color images of Ceres? I read somewhere that that was not planned.
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