Washington, 1 Dec (EFE).-the world of three dimensions has become fashionable in the cinema and NASA wanted to join this new practice with a video of the giant asteroid Vesta prepared with data sent by the Dawn probe that orbits it since July 15.
To view the video, which is available on the website of NASA, the user will need to use the traditional red and blue glasses to help adjust the view of this format.
“If you want to know how is to explore a new world as Vesta, this new video gives everyone the opportunity to see for himself”, said Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and director of the team which produced the video.
“Scientists study carefully these images to find out more about how created craters, mountains and the grooves”, pointed out.
The images were taken when Dawn approached the asteroid giant and made the first orbit of recognition at a distance of 2,700 kilometres.
Video offers a global of Vesta from the plane of its Equator view, where you can see a “mysterious” band of ridges and valleys linear.
Virtual tour by Vesta leads users to explore the young craters in the northern hemisphere, whose particular alignments has led scientists to refer to them as the “snow man”.
The journey continues around a giant mountain at the South Pole of the asteroid, which is 25 kilometres from high, or what is the same, more than twice Mount Everest, the highest on Earth with a height of 8,848 meters above sea level.
The Dawn probe was launched in September 2007 and reached Vesta July 15 this year. Its mission will be to study the asteroid for one year to continue his journey in July 2012 to the dwarf planet Ceres, where he is expected to arrive in 2015.
This project involves the Center JPL for the direction of scientific missions of NASA in Washington, the Marshall Center’s flight space in Huntsville, Alabama, the University of California (UCLA) and company Orbital Sciences Corporation, which designed and built the spacecraft space.
Are also part of the mission team the German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for the investigation of the Solar system, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Institute for Astrophysics. EFE
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