NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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It's a fact (?).

NASA announced its Dawn spacecraft just entered Vesta's orbit. "The top level question that the mission addresses is the role of size and water in determining the evolution of the planets". Go check yourself at http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/.
I saw the first pictures as published on the main newspapers online and I have a question: why do they all look black and white and there are no stars around the asteroid?


Image of Vesta Captured by Dawn on July 9, 2011

July 14, 2011 - PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 2.4 miles (3.8 kilometers).
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

And now why when hubble takes a picture of Vesta it is blurred (Hubble is supposed to have a superhigh precision and is supposed to be able to clearly see far galaxies...) and colorful?


(source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 7/image/a/)


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Do the shadows fit?




Check for more images at Image-of-the-day archive (sounds like: All you can eat! )

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

And as usual:

- no stars


And all black and white pictures...

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Before fake Dawn mission made it to Vesta this is what we (myself then a believer in their scams) had grown used to about Vesta appearance. This one was purportedly taken by the Bubble Telescope.


Then Dawn reached Vesta and this was one of the first ugly pictures which surprised me as I realized Vesta was not oblong but rather a ball of clay (ever since they have tried to correct this clanger,by making up images more in accordance to the "old" look)






This is a computer generated asteroid by the University of Arizona Staff (very close to NASA)



Asteroid - Cells components for the craters. Dented Cells and Fractal Cells for the surface crust. The image shown here was created in Lightwave, demonstrating that these cellular components work just fine with the DarkTree 2.5 simbionts.

Ref: http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/darktree/cellular.html

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This was the first logo they used in their mission page at http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov



which they decided to change to this one later on



What clowns

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When I load the above image in Photoshop and raise the midtone levels I get:



I wonder what that weird mass is?

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hidden square shenanigans

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^ Now that's just phoney baloney!

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Most of the images at NASA have their EXIF data completely removed.

However when this mission started publishing photos I caught the first one with exif information in it

This image at http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/ima ... 20_720.jpg



caption NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on[b] June 20, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 117,000 miles (189,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta.[/b]

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As you can see graphic artists at NASA (as well as ESA .. try it yourself), are quite fond of the Adobe Photoshop suite