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Dawn's first orbit, including RC3, March 6, 2015- June 15, 2015
Ron Hobbs
post 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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scalbers
post Jun 13 2015, 02:26 PM
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Here is an updated map, adding 3 recent higher resolution images that include a couple of the white spot areas:

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Full 4K resolution and polar views are here.


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post Jun 15 2015, 06:27 PM
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QUOTE (scalbers @ Jun 13 2015, 10:26 AM) *
Here is an updated map ...

And here is your map, re-projected (azimuthal equal-area) to 4 hemispheres with grid lines. Mostly for my own use since I keep getting lost, now that the whole disk isn't visible.

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(re-posted w. proper credits)
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