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Asteroid Vesta Floats in Space in High Resolution 3-D
Vesta’s Eastern Hemisphere Floats in Space in 3-D
This anaglyph shows the varied topography of Vesta’s eastern hemisphere from craters in the north, the equatorial troughs and the huge mountain at the Rheasilvia impact basin on South Pole.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.
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The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies Eastern Hemisphere taken by NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Orbiter.
Haul out your red-cyan 3-D anaglyph glasses and lets go whirling around Vesta, sledding down mountains to greet the alien Snowman!
The Dawn imaging group based at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Berlin, Germany and led by team member Ralf Jaumann has released a trio on new high resolution 3-D images that are the most vivid anaglyphs yet published by the international science team. (…)
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