Dawn's Survey Orbit at Ceres |
Dawn's Survey Orbit at Ceres |
Jun 15 2015, 05:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
daily Ceres picture from the survey orbit
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images...tml?id=PIA19572 I started a new topic, as we are no longer in the first orbit phase |
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Jun 17 2015, 04:48 PM
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FYI, the released TIFS have much better detail than the JPGs.
That mound just seems to have no rhyme or reason. If anything, it resembles a volcanic dome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_dome ). |
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Jun 17 2015, 11:16 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 8-May 14 Member No.: 7185 |
That mound just seems to have no rhyme or reason. If anything, it resembles a volcanic dome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_dome ). Perhaps a tip of rocky core poking out through a globe of dust? |
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