Images from the long-awaited Dawn Vesta data set

Posted 2012/11/29 11:55 CST | 4 comments

A few days ago, the Dawn mission finally published their archival data. During the year of delay I often looked with anticipation to the Planetary Data System to check whether or not images were there, and I am delighted that they are finally available. Was the wait worth it? Definitely!

Tohil Mons and Radegast Patera

Posted 2013/09/03 | 0 comments

Cross-eye stereographic view of 11-km-high Tohil Mons and Radegast Patera (dark lava lake) on Io. The resolution of these Galileo Solid-State Imaging Experiment (SSI) images is approximately 150 m/pixel and color data was taken from lower resolution images from orbit C21 observations. To get a sense of scale, Radegast Patera has almost same diameter as Endeavour Crater on Mars, where the rover Opportunity is exploring.

Surface changes on Tempel 1

Posted 2013/08/25 | 0 comments

In this animation, two views of Tempel 1, from Deep Impact in 2005 and Stardust in 2011, have been warped to match their geometry and then morphed back and forth. Some of the apparent motion between the two images is due to the different viewing geometry, but there are a few visible changes to the surface between the pair of images, particularly along the edge of the smooth flow-like feature at the bottom of the image and at the site of the Deep Impact crash between the two dark-rimmed circular features.

Animation of Stardust's flyby of Tempel 1

Posted 2013/08/19 | 0 comments

Morphed animation of comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel) made from twelve images taken by the Stardust spacecraft (mission Stardust-NExT). Artificial color is based on images from Deep Impact mission.