{"id":10727,"date":"2015-06-09T01:24:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T05:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2015-06-09T01:24:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T05:24:52","slug":"video-flying-over-ceres-with-the-dawn-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10727","title":{"rendered":"Video: Flying over Ceres with the Dawn spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, NASA released this video created images of the dwarf planet <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/science\/why.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ceres <\/a>made by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn probe<\/a>, which is gradually orbiting closer and closer to the asteroid :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news-detail.html?id=4614\" target=\"_blank\">Fly Over Ceres in New Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSaLVAl-ObY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new animated video of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft, provides a unique perspective of this heavily cratered, mysterious world.<\/p>\n<p>The video is based on observations of Ceres that were taken from Dawn&#8217;s first mapping orbit, at an altitude of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers), as well as the most recent navigational images taken from 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers).<\/p>\n<p>The video is available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/video\/details.php?id=1380\">www.jpl.nasa.gov\/video\/details.php?id=1380<\/a>\u00a0[See above.]<\/p>\n<p>Data from 80 images are combined into the video. Analysis of overlapping images provided three-dimensional detail. The vertical dimension is exaggerated by a factor of two in the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We used a three-dimensional terrain model that we had produced based on the images acquired so far,&#8221; said Dawn team member Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Berlin. &#8220;They will become increasingly detailed as the mission progresses &#8212; with each additional orbit bringing us closer to the surface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dawn entered its second mapping orbit on June 3. It will spend the rest of the month observing the dwarf planet from 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) above its surface. The spacecraft will conduct intensive observations of Ceres, completing orbits of about three days each.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Dawn made history as the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and the first to orbit two distinct extraterrestrial targets. It studied Vesta, a protoplanet in the main asteroid belt, for 14 months in 2011 and 2012, and arrived at Ceres on March 6, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn&#8217;s mission is managed by JPL for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate&#8217;s Discovery Program, managed by NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Italian Space Agency and Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of mission participants, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/mission\">dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/mission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information about Dawn is available at the following sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">dawn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/dawn\">www.nasa.gov\/dawn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, NASA released this video created images of the dwarf planet Ceres made by the Dawn probe, which is gradually orbiting closer and closer to the asteroid : Fly Over Ceres in New Video A new animated video of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft, provides a unique perspective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Flying over Ceres with the Dawn spacecraft<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2N1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9770,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9770","url_meta":{"origin":10727,"position":0},"title":"Dawn returns best-ever images of dwarf planet Ceres","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Dawn spacecraft moves closer to the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt (compare to a week ago). 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