October 20, 2015
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA and Dr Paolo C. Fienga for the additional process. and color.
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This frame is an Extra Detail Magnification ("EDM") of October's, 18th, fascinating Contextual (or "CTX", for short) Frame, taken by the NASA - Dawn Spacecraft on September, 20, 2015, which shows us, once again, a very small portion of the Northern Hemisphere of the Dwarf Planet named 1-Ceres. In today's EDM we can see, with great detail, an extremely dark and almost perfectly rectangular Shadow (or is it, maybe, a really unusually-shaped Surface Depression?) that is visible to the East of the Crater and whose nature remains - for now - a real mistery. We, as IPF, have really no idea of what this Feature may actually be or represent but, if you have any idea, please write us at alphacentauri@intercom.it . The original photo was taken from an altitude of approx. 915 miles (such as about 1472,5461 Km) from the Surface, with a resolution of roughly 450 feet (such as about 137,16 meters) per pixel. This image (which is a crop obtained from an an Original NASA - Dawn Spacecraft's b/w and NON Map-Projected frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 19979 - Dawn HAMO Image 37) has been additionally processed, extra-magnified to aid the visibility of the details, contrast enhanced and sharpened, Gamma corrected and then colorized (according to an educated guess carried out by Dr Paolo C. Fienga-LXTT-IPF) in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a normal human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Dawn Spacecraft and then looked ahead, towards the Surface of 1-Ceres), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. |
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