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on Friday June 12 2015, @05:12PM
from the fly-me-to-the-moon-and-let-me-play-among-the-stars dept.
from the fly-me-to-the-moon-and-let-me-play-among-the-stars dept.
NASA has released a dramatic new video of the dwarf planet Ceres.
The black-and-white animation lets viewers fly around the mysterious orb from an altitude of 8,400 miles, compressing the nine-hour Cererian day into 75 seconds. It was assembled from 80 images taken by the space agency's Dawn spacecraft.
You can read about the video or just go straight to it.
Presumably to make the video more dramatic, they exaggerated the vertical profile by a factor of two and they added a star field to the background.
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Fly Around Ceres in a New NASA Video
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday June 12 2015, @06:00PM
BEGIN SARCASM Don't worry those bright spots are pure plutonium making Ceres completely useless for all future space colonization efforts . . . END SARCASM
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(Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Friday June 12 2015, @06:51PM
Thats no planetoid... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVekNsgUqn4 [youtube.com]
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