NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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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? :ph34r:

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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?
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(source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 7/image/a/)
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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Do the shadows fit?


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

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/ima ... rchive.asp

And as usual:

- no stars
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And all black and white pictures... :ph34r:
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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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.
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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)

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

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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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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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

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which they decided to change to this one later on

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What clowns :angry:
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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

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I wonder what that weird mass is?
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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hidden square shenanigans

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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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^ Now that's just phoney baloney! :lol:
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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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

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

Contains the following exif metadata

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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 :lol:
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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Marc Rayman, chief engineer and mission director for Dawn, ¿another CGI character?


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHj_kmYSpkI

See how fake all these people look. See, for example, the shoes of the third person from the right.

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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4092
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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agroposo wrote:See, for example, the shoes of the third person from the right.
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Curious...and a strangely-empty trouserleg.

But as for his face...it reminds me of Westworld...

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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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Not to mention the Asian man on the end!

The entirety looks unnaturally constructed, that's for sure. Figures seem to be floating in their own space, shadows artificially added and people seem to be shot at different angles. Also, is it ordinary for everyone to be fitted for the same suit these days? Is this a joke? I mean, even at weddings now you frequently see a looser dress code. This certainly cannot purport to be a simple photograph; I'd be surprised if it were. This is a good lesson in very rudimentary photo fakery.

Just a friendly reminder to everyone: please remember to download all images used in your points and arguments and re-upload them to a safe space. We don't need originals vanishing. Thank you for doing that, for those that remember this is good policy for an archival site.
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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How come everyone has such 'veiny' hands? Even the 'overweight' guy fourth from left?
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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Doesn't everyone wear combat boots with their tuxedos? :rolleyes:
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Re: NASA's Dawn enters orbit of asteroid Vesta

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Why in NASA photos, everybody is always looking straight to the camera? That's scary. :D
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