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Whether buried craters or remnants of cosmic projectiles: A new analysis of data from the U.S. space probe “Dawn” reveals hidden landscapes of the asteroid Vesta in surreal colors
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scientists is a look at previously hidden beauties of the asteroid Vesta succeeded. New evaluated data of the U.S. space probe “Dawn” show varied geological formations and unique landscapes, such as the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Katlenburg-Lindau announced.
The pictures are evidence therefore the geological diversity of the proto-planet that is stuck in an early stage of development and planets in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter orbits the sun.
camera system developed in Germany
The NASA probe “Dawn” had reached Vesta in July 2011 and orbits until August 2012. The camera system on board of “Dawn” was developed in Braunschweig under the direction of MPS in cooperation with the Institute for Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin, and the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering (IDA) and built.
MPS scientists have now succeeded in imaging errors to suppress as far as possible in the reevaluation of the camera data. In addition, the calibration of the camera was so refined that even the finest brightness changes are represented.
This has been made among others by quake buried craters on Vesta surface visible also from other asteroids registered foreign materials.
“No artist could paint something so”
were impressed the MPS researchers primarily on the aesthetics of the color-coded images, in which are the different colors for different materials on the surface of the protoplanet. “No artist could paint such a thing,” said Martin Hoffmann, a scientific member of the camera team. “This creates just nature.”
viewed with the human eye sees color Vesta, however unspectacular: The asteroid presents itself as a grayish, irregularly shaped body with a diameter of about 530 kilometers, covered by a large variety and smaller craters.
Launched five years ago, research probe “Dawn” is currently for dwarf planet Ceres go. 2015, the probe reach the heavenly bodies, which also draws its orbit around the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The “Dawn” mission is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the U.S. space agency NASA.
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