November 13, 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 is an Extra Detail Magnification (or "EDM", for short) of yesterday's beautiful Contextual Image of the Dwarf Planet 1-Ceres, taken by the NASA - Dawn Spacecraft on October, 2, 2015, and centered at approx. 59° North Latitude and 258° East Longitude. In this EDM (that looks at an area located toward the center/right (Dx) of Geshtin Crater), at least five, maybe six (and one relatively big) White Spots can easily be seen. Their origin and nature are still a mistery. 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 Original NASA - Dawn Spacecraft's b/w and NON Map-Projected frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 20000 - Dawn HAMO Image 57) 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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