Catalog Page for PIA20132
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20132

One of the most intriguing features on Ceres, Occator crater, is seen in this oblique view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. This crater is 60 miles (90 kilometers) across and 2 miles (4 kilometers) deep, and is home to the brightest areas on Ceres.

This image was acquired from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). Dawn took this image on Oct. 18, 2015.

Today at 11:08 CET, Japan's audacious Hayabusa2 spacecraft made a critical Earth flyby to gain energy for its multi-year journey to asteroid Ryugu. The craft zoomed past our pale blue dot just 3000 km above the Pacific Ocean. On Saturday, ESA's 35m deep-space ground station at Malargüe, Argentine, will start providing crucial tracking support. ESA is delighted to assist this fantastic mission and the Hayabusa team kindly shared this animation, a mash-up of images taken just hours before closest approach as the craft neared between 200 000 to 36 000 km between 01:00-09:45 CET. Upon arrival at asteroid Ryugu in 2018, the high-tech craft will deliver several microlanders, deposit the European Mascot landing package, snatch a sample of primordial material and then return it safely to Earth in 2020. This animation has already been distributed to the media in Japan, and will appear tomorrow in the JAXA website.

SVANC: ten Jupiter by už chtěl nějaký speciální opalovací krém s ochranným faktorem proti radiaci min. 10000 :-) a trochu teplejší spacák (o dost). a taky trochu víc paliva a zásob na cestu.

já jsem celkem realista... moje sny jsou dnes technicky možné, jenom lidstvo se radši chce navzájem vybombardovat, než aby mi dopřálo menší výlet.

XCHAOS: Proč tak při zemi? :) To já bych chtěl průlet sluneční soustavou, s důrazem na Jupiter a Saturn :D.

VIRGO: popravdě, tenhle pohled bych hrozně chtěl vidět jako kosmický turista (bohužel, na palivo je to tak min. 3x náročnější, než prostá kosmická turistika na LEO + ještě by byl potřeba teplý spacák a zásoby proviantu tak na 3 týdny až měsíc...)

Zítřejší start LPF potvrzen.
Rovněž zítra bude Hayabusa 2 provádět gravitační manévr kolem Země.
「はやぶさ2」地球スイングバイ解説CG ／ Hayabusa2's Earth Swing-by CG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjqff5bkUrE


Takhle blejskla náš dvojsystém 26/11 ze 3M km:

LISA Pathfinder - start se přesunul na zítřejší ráno. Asi nejhustější startovní okno, co jsem zažil - 1 sekunda...
Když cokoli selže, start se přesouvá přesně o 24 hodin :))

CLUMP: Ta cerna tecka je Muad'dib

SpaceX hopes to land next F9 booster on land at "Landing Complex-1" at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

James Dean on Twitter: "SpaceX hopes to land next F9 booster on land at "Landing Complex-1" at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station."
https://twitter.com/flatoday_jdean/status/671685155971596289

VIRGO: fotky děr po hardwaru nejsou důkaz, že tam byl člověk

Still need proof that humans went to the Moon?

The crash site of Apollo 16's rocket booster has been spotted on the Moon - ScienceAlert
http://www.sciencealert.com/...crash-site-of-apollo-16-s-rocket-booster-has-been-spotted-on-the-moon
The experiment allowed them to perform seismic measurements to try to investigate the interior of the Moon. Unfortunately, a malfunction
meant that the tracking data for the rocket got lost, so there's been long-standing uncertainty as to exactly where the booster crashed.
But now Jeff Plescia, a physicist from Johns Hopkins University, who's become an expert at locating lost hardware on extraterrestrial
surfaces, used high-resolution images produced by the LROC system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to find the missing impact
crater. “I did finally find the Apollo 16 SIVB crater,” Plescia told Leonard David over at Inside Outer Space. “It looks like the others,
but its position was much more poorly defined since the tracking was lost prior to impact."