{"id":29410,"date":"2010-10-17T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/vesta-movie-by-hubble\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:11:19","slug":"vesta-movie-by-hubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/vesta-movie-by-hubble.php","title":{"rendered":"Vesta Movie by Hubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers used 146 images of the Dwarf Planet Vesta taken by the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble to get a look at its 5.34 hour rotation.  The imaging was done in preparation for the encounter between the DAWN spacecraft and Vesta in July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The images were taken in the near-ultraviolet and blue light. Hubble can see features about 25 miles (40km) across.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a title=\"Visit the press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/dawn\/multimedia\/pia13427.html\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> (more info and image sizes in the link):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The asteroid is somewhat like our moon, with ancient lava beds (the dark patches) and powdery debris, the pulverized remains of impacts (the orange-colored areas). A flattened area on one end of Vesta is a giant impact crater formed by a collision billions of years ago. The crater is 460 kilometers (285 miles) across, close to Vesta&#8217;s roughly 530-kilometer (330-mile) diameter. The asteroid is about the size of Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/ESA\/STScI\/UMd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers used 146 images of the Dwarf Planet Vesta taken by the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble to get a look at its 5.34 hour rotation. The imaging was done in preparation for the encounter between the DAWN spacecraft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/vesta-movie-by-hubble.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}