by APOD Robot » Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:11 am
Vesta Trek: A Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta
Explanation: You can explore asteroid Vesta. Recently, NASA's robotic spaceship
Dawn visited
Vesta, the second largest object in our Solar System's main
asteroid belt, which lies between
Mars and
Jupiter. During a year-long stopover,
Dawn's cameras photographed
Vesta's entire surface, documenting all of the
minor planet's major mountains and craters. These images have now been combined into a
digital model that allows anyone with a full-featured browser to
fly all around Vesta, virtually, and even zoom in on
interesting surface features, by just dragging and clicking. If desired, the initially flat 2D map can be wrapped into a
nearly spherical object by clicking on the 3D icon at the bottom. Dawn departed Vesta in 2012 and is now just beginning to photograph and explore the
mysteries of the largest object in the asteroid belt:
dwarf-planet Ceres.
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