Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 4, 2016

Zadeni Crater (EDM)
Zadeni Crater (EDM)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA and Dr Paolo C. Fienga for the additional process. and color.

This is an Extra Detail Magnification ("EDM") obtained from yesterday's wonderful Contextual Image (or "CTX Frame", for short) of the Dwarf Planet 1-Ceres, taken by the NASA - Dawn Spacecraft on February, 16th, 2016, that showed us a relatively small portion of Zadeni Crater (approx. 80 miles - such as about 128,7472 Km - wide). Zadeni Crater is a prominent Impact Feature located in the Southern Hemisphere of 1-Ceres and what you see here is a relatively recent (of course, Geologically speaking) Unnamed Impact Crater located inside it.


The (relatively) "clean"  (---> sharp) Rim, the bright and smooth Inner Slopes as well as its (barely visible portion of the) Interior speak from themselves.


The NASA - Dawn Spacecraft captured the scene during its Low-Altitude Mapping Orbit (or "LAMO", for short), from an approx. altitude of 240 miles (such as about 386,2416 Km) above the Surface of 1-Ceres. The Image Resolution is roughly 120 feet (i.e. about 36,576 meters) per pixel (---> Picture Element).


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 20574 - DAWN LAMO Image n. 79) 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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