Ceres Spots « The HabitableZone

Ceres Spots February 25, 2015 5:54 pm podrock

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/Ceres_two_bright_spots.asp

This is fun, watching the resolution of the images from the Dawn spacecraft looking at Ceres get better and better. It is awesome, even if it were just a gray cratered surface. But we have a bonus feature with this asteroid/planetoid: a mysterious, high-albedo anomaly. What is it? Ice?

Put us into orbit, Sulu…..

The Latest Animation by podrock 2015-03-02 20:06:20
- I'm totally baffled. by ER 2015-03-02 21:45:14
  - I'm on the edge of my seat. by podrock 2015-03-02 22:29:20
    - I'd love to see a histogram of the pixel gray levels of the raw data. by ER 2015-03-03 07:27:09
      - histogram: by podrock 2015-03-03 11:50:04
        
        I'm not quite sure how to interpret that. by ER 2015-03-03 12:51:24
        
        process by podrock 2015-03-03 13:18:14
...Mr. Spock, sound General Quarters. by ER 2015-02-25 18:34:24
- Mr. Spock . . . by DanS 2015-02-27 11:26:58
- Long range scanner log by podrock 2015-02-25 18:49:45
  - Well, its not a processing artifact. by ER 2015-02-25 19:06:42
    - No away team, but, by podrock 2015-02-25 20:02:26
      - Craters are never oval, regardless of the angle of impact of the projectile. by ER 2015-02-25 21:38:11
        
        Upheaval Dome by podrock 2015-02-27 19:01:22
        
        Zit city...or the planetoid pustule. by ER 2015-02-28 13:44:41
        
        Time will tell, and soon! by podrock 2015-02-28 14:23:35

Recent posts

Search

The Control Panel