This video from NASA's Dawn mission shows that the gravity field of
Vesta closely matches the surface topography of the giant asteroid
Vesta. The video shows shaded topography from Dawn's framing camera on
the left, with troughs and craters visible, and color-contoured data
from Dawn's gravity experiment on the right. Red shows the areas with a
higher than average gravity field and blue-purple shows the areas where
the field is weaker on average. The highest topography, on the rim of
the Rheasilvia basin deep in the southern hemisphere, shows a
particularly strong gravity field.
The topography model is
derived from framing camera images from Dawn's high-altitude mapping
orbit (420 miles or 680 kilometers above the surface), and the gravity
data come from the low-altitude mapping orbit (130 miles or 210
kilometers above the surface).
Vesta takes approximately 5.34 hours to make a rotation.
By: vril
In: Science and Technology
Tags: Nasa, Vesta, Shape and Gravity, Dawn mission
Marked as: approved
Views: 950 | Comments: 4 | Votes: 1 | Favorites: 2 | Shared: 0 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 1
Advertisement below
|
|
| Liveleak on Facebook | |
|
LIKE Liveleak.com |
-
NASA : Vesta - False Color Shape Model.
-
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Finishes Mars Phase
-
Your say. The thaw of a cold war and the dawn of a big freeze
-
Zero Gravity ISS Experiment
-
Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid
-
Dawn Captures Video on Approach to Asteroid Vesta
-
Bad Company 911 Conspiracy. Attack on America by Bad Company
-
NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid's Orbit on July 15
-
Dawn - Mission to the Astroid Belt
-
Dawn Mission Video
-
NASA HIDING CLIMATEGATE DATA
-
Space Shuttle Columbias Last Mission



An asteroid has a gravity field?
Posted Jul-13-2012 ByHalf_life (42.10) Half_life View Channel Send Message
(1)
@Half_life
I think if its big enough... yes
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByHuub (51.40) Huub View Channel Send Message
(0)
interesting science, who'd have thought to look at such an object as Vesta for variations in the gravity field, (obviously these scientists did!) love NASA research - Top Notch Stuff.
Posted Apr-25-2012 Bythecleaner001 (11799.08) 
thecleaner001 View Channel Send Message
(0)
Those are just clumps of crap vacumed from space by its gravity.
As it gets bigger it generates more gravity and collects more crap.
Who knows what minerals are in there.
Posted Apr-25-2012 Bymoefugger (2138.96)

moefugger View Channel Send Message
(0)