Dawn's last mission extensions at Ceres, From XMO3 to EOM |
Dawn's last mission extensions at Ceres, From XMO3 to EOM |
Feb 1 2017, 02:37 PM
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This thread will cover all final phases of the Dawn mission, the end of which is not certain at this point.
XMO3 was suppose to be the final orbit, but now plans have changed and it will move into a new higher altitude and higher phase orbit soon. This will be XMO4. An interesting monthly journal for January details the plan: Dawn Journal 31 January 2017 |
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Jul 18 2018, 03:57 PM
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Mosaic of Cerealia Facula in Occator Crater:
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21924 Mosaic of the Vinalia Faculae in Occator Crater: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21925 |
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Jul 18 2018, 08:07 PM
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Oh my! Those mosaics are absolutely stunning!
I see lot of pockmarks (pits/craters) on that white surface, although gray material within linear troughs/chasms and around that flat elevated mesa at SW is rather smooth. Those bright fluvial features streaming down from flat-top mesa seems to be mixing with darker stuff which then covers underlaying bright deposits. I wonder, how amazing look would it be, standing down there next to central dome and looking SW at those streams! Streams and landslides within troughs seems to be the youngest geological features here. Or those pockmarks all around the bright stuff are not impacts, but rather some sublimation-pits or even cryovolcanic calderas?? Either way, it's crazy landscape.. |
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