Vesta's "Snowman" (3D)

Filed under pretty pictures, 3D, amateur image processing, asteroids, asteroid 4 Vesta, Dawn

Go Back

To make this 3D view of the "Snowman" crater chain on Vesta, Tayfun Öner first created a global 3D model of Vesta from the Dawn mission's rotation movie, then mapped a higher-resolution image of the snowman to it, then rendered two views of the craters from two different perspectives and combined them into a red-blue anaglyph.

NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / Tayfun Öner

Copyright holder: Tayfun Öner

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about August 6, 2011