March 25, 2016
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) obtained from yesterday's simply beautiful picture (which is, in fact, an Image-Mosaic of several frames obtained by the NASA - Dawn Spacecraft) that shows us the so-far unexplainable (from a Geological and Chemical point of view) Bright Spot located near the center of Occator Crater and which is shown here in Absolute Natural Colors. Also the yellowish Striations - extremely well visible right on top of the Bright Spot - are a mistery. Such kind of views can (also/among other things) be used to highlight subtle color differences of 1-Ceres' Surface. However, the - apparently (of course in our humble opinion, as IPF) - continuous modifications, in shape, morphology and consistency, of the aforementioned White Spots, is another mistery of this - always - fascinating, and truly hard to understand, Dwarf-Planet. This frame (which is a sub-crop obtained from an Original NASA - Dawn Spacecraft's falsely colored and NON Map-Projected image-mosaic published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 20355) has been additionally processed, extra-magnified to aid the visibility of the details, contrast enhanced and sharpened, Gamma corrected and then re-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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