Dawn's first orbit, including RC3, March 6, 2015- June 15, 2015 |
Dawn's first orbit, including RC3, March 6, 2015- June 15, 2015 |
Mar 6 2015, 03:23 PM
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Dawn is now officially in orbit around (1) Ceres!
Congratulations, NASA. Nice images of crescent Ceres. NASA Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet |
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Apr 17 2015, 05:56 AM
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aligning the animated gif with the textured mesh and lat long marks
the other "bright spot" is at 42 N and 0 long. it is barely visible in the gif 3 frames from the gif with and without a spherical grid the 0/360 long is top right on the sphere and you can see the major bright spot hidden under the horizon almost visible on the top left |
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