https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/21/dawn-obtains-first-low-altitud/ Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/21/dawn-obtains-first-low-altitud/#comment-510623 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:03:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/21/dawn-obtains-first-low-altitud/#comment-510623 very nice article 🙂

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/21/dawn-obtains-first-low-altitud/#comment-510622 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:34:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/21/dawn-obtains-first-low-altitud/#comment-510622 Hey, did the Face on Mars move to Vesta? There goes the neighborhood!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/21/dawn-obtains-first-low-altitud/#comment-510621 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:22:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/21/dawn-obtains-first-low-altitud/#comment-510621 It looks a lot like the close ups of Eros … except for those ripples (dunes?). My first guess is that Vesta has some vibrational resonances, and when it got whacked last, the dust distributed itself along these lines, but I have no numbers or simulations to back that idea up.

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