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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-11 11:54 AM
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A pretty cool real video from the Dawn Spacecraft and the asteroid Vesta
New views of the second most massive object in the asteroid belt.
Its from JPL and is the latest

VIDEO HERE

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/video/Vesta20110915-1280.mov




Dawn, as a mission belonging to NASA’s Discovery Program, delves into the unknown, drives new technology innovations, and achieves what's never been attempted before. In Dawn’s case, it is orbiting one member of the main asteroid belt, Vesta, before heading to gather yet more data at a second, Ceres.
Dawn's goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. Ceres and Vesta reside in the extensive zone between Mars and Jupiter together with many other smaller bodies, called the asteroid belt. Each has followed a very different evolutionary path constrained by the diversity of processes that operated during the first few million years of solar system evolution.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/
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d_r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-11 12:07 PM
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1. very cool
That's where I want my outer space castle base to be built.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-11 12:21 PM
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2. Hoagland earlier said to look for them
and saw them until the craft got too close. LOL He said it was a type two civilization {Kardashev} that got destroyed. and now JPL is hiding the data and photos........... OK what else can you expect from him.


Anyway, the craft will get much, much closer next month.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-11 01:03 PM
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3. k/r
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TheMadMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:00 AM
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4. WTF does NASA isist on using the least common and most propietary...
...flipping video codec?

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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 04:53 AM
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5. Works great on an iPad.
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TheMadMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 08:01 PM
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6. And it continually tries to force feed me iTunes on my PC. /nt
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