Haunting.
Why has it taken so long to see these close ups? To give them time to shop out the white spots?
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It is delightfully spherical. Suggests the planet is soft inside.
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The short answer is cuz Dawn just went 900 million miles to create an orbit around an iceball only 590 miles in diameter. It’s been making a sling shot round the dark side and is approaching it’s fixed orbit position.
This photo looks like OpNav 6 w/17%illumination I’m all excited to see OpNav 7 dawn took on the 14th with 49% illumination
Here’s the time table:
http://dawnblog.jpl.nasa.gov/2015/02/25/dawn-journal-february-25/#table
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BTW nice scoop Xeni! FTW
OpNav 7 Woohoo!!!
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