{"id":12122,"date":"2016-01-29T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12122"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:56:43","slug":"video-flying-over-the-dwarf-planet-ceres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12122","title":{"rendered":"Video: Flying over the dwarf planet Ceres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn mission<\/a> has released a video showing high resolution fly-over views of the surface of the dwarf planet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)\" target=\"_blank\">Ceres<\/a> in the Asteroid Belt as imaged by the Dawn probe:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news-detail.html?id=4836\">New Animation Takes a Colorful Flight Over Ceres<\/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\/nJiw2NxqoBU?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>The movie was produced by members of Dawn&#8217;s framing camera team at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, using images from Dawn&#8217;s high-altitude mapping orbit. During that phase of the mission, which lasted from August to October 2015, the spacecraft circled Ceres at an altitude of about 900 miles (1,450 kilometers).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The simulated overflight shows the wide range of crater shapes that we have encountered on Ceres. The viewer can observe the sheer walls of the crater Occator, and also Dantu and Yalode, where the craters are a lot flatter,&#8221; said Ralf Jaumann, a Dawn mission scientist at DLR.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn is the first mission to visit Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After orbiting asteroid Vesta for 14 months in 2011 and 2012, Dawn arrived at Ceres in March 2015. The spacecraft is currently in its final and lowest mapping orbit, at about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn&#8217;s mission is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 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:<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary_column\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg_content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/mission\" target=\"_blank\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\">dawn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/dawn\" target=\"_blank\">www.nasa.gov\/dawn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dawn mission has released a video showing high resolution fly-over views of the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt as imaged by the Dawn probe: New Animation Takes a Colorful Flight Over Ceres The movie was produced by members of Dawn&#8217;s framing camera team at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Flying over the dwarf planet Ceres<\/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":[75,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-39w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16353,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16353","url_meta":{"origin":12122,"position":0},"title":"Dawn probe flies low over Ceres and gets dramatic views of Occator Crater","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest from the Dawn probe orbiting low over the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt: Dawn\u2019s Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator Crater NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asteroids &amp; Comets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids &amp; Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pia22477-161.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11257,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11257","url_meta":{"origin":12122,"position":1},"title":"Dawn probe sends sharpest images yet of Ceres","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Dawn Mission\u00a0posts new and sharper images of the Ceres dwarf planet in the asteroid belt: Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the small world's features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres' tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asteroids &amp; Comets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids &amp; Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"PIA19631-640x350[1]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PIA19631-640x3501.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11332,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11332","url_meta":{"origin":12122,"position":2},"title":"Dawn probe sends new images of Ceres and its mysterious bright spots","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Dawn mission releases new images of the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt and of those odd bright spots: Ceres' Bright Spots Seen in Striking New Detail The brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres gleam with mystery in new views delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. 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