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by simone » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:30 am
Do you know at what distance was the picture taken? Strangely they didn't state it in the caption as usual. Thanks
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by bystander » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:15 pm
simone wrote:
Do you know at what distance was the picture taken? Strangely they didn't state it in the caption as usual. Thanks
About 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers) from Ceres (about the distance from Earth to the Moon).
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19168
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by DavidLeodis » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:46 pm
Thanks Donnageddon for that help, which is appreciated.
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by quigley » Fri Jan 23, 2015 6:54 pm
A silly question that I believe was answered by the distance question posted answer, but I was not sure what took these video frames? I now assume that it was the Dawn spacecraft.
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by bystander » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:45 pm
quigley wrote:A silly question that I believe was answered by the distance question posted answer, but I was not sure what took these video frames? I now assume that it was the Dawn spacecraft.
Yes, they were taken by
Dawn's Framing Camera, basically its eyes, used for navigation.
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