Using the data sent by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the U.S. space agency has developed a 3D video of asteroid Vesta.
The spacecraft, which began orbiting the giant asteroid on July 15, captured these images when they approached the giant asteroid and made the first orbit of recognition at a distance of 2,700 km.
To see the video, which is available on the NASA website , you will need to use the traditional red and blue lenses that help the eye adapt to this format.
“If you want to know how to explore a new world such as Vesta, this new video gives everyone the opportunity to see for themselves,” said Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and director of the team that produced the video.
He adds, “scientists pore over these images to learn more about how the craters, mountains and ridges are created.”
These images lead users to explore the craters of the northern hemisphere, whose particular alignment has led scientists to refer to them as “Snowman.”
The trip continues to surround a giant mountain at the south pole of the asteroid, which is 25 miles high, or whatever it is, more than twice the height of Mount Everest, the highest in the planet Earth with an altitude of 8,848 meters above sea ??level.
The Dawn spacecraft was launched in September 2007 and came to meet Vesta on July 15 this year. Its mission is to study the asteroid for a year to continue their trip in July 2012 into the dwarf planet Ceres, where he is expected to rise in 2015.
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