File:PIA19064-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-StillImage-20150414.jpg

Original file (968 × 968 pixels, file size: 133 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: PIA19064: Settling in at Ceres

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19064

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19064

STILL IMAGE http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19064.jpg

ANIMATED IMAGE http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA19064.gif

This animated sequence of images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows northern terrain on the sunlit side of dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn took these images on April 14 and 15 from a vantage point 14,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above Ceres' northern hemisphere. The spacecraft was settling into its first circular orbit, called RC3 (for "rotation characterization 3"), which it will begin on April 23.

The bright feature called "spot 5" by the Dawn science team -- actually two bright spots close together -- rotates into view at right in the last few frames.

Dawn has now finished delivering the images that have helped mission planners maneuver the spacecraft to its first science orbit and prepare for subsequent observations.

Image scale on Ceres is about 1.3 miles (2.1 kilometers) per pixel, compared to 1.9 miles (3.1 kilometers) per pixel in the optical navigation images taken on April 10 (see PIA19064). The sun-Ceres-spacecraft angle, or phase angle is 91 degrees here, compared to 131 degrees in the previous sequence.

A processed still image from this sequence is also available.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19064.jpg

Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA'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, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of acknowledgments, http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.
Date
Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19064.jpg
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

14 April 2015

135,738 byte

968 pixel

968 pixel

image/jpeg

c27efb2afd57e19334cc894b4e7df44d5abbe1d2

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:52, 20 April 2015Thumbnail for version as of 14:52, 20 April 2015968 × 968 (133 KB)Drbogdancropped - via JASC Paint Shop Pro v6.02
14:36, 20 April 2015Thumbnail for version as of 14:36, 20 April 20151,068 × 1,260 (115 KB)DrbogdanUser created page with UploadWizard

Global file usage