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Asteroid Dactyl
This image is the most detailed picture of the recently discovered natural satellite of asteroid 243 Ida taken by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging camera during its encounter with the asteroid on August 28, 1993. Shuttered through the camera's broadband clear filter as part of a 30-frame mosaic designed to image the asteroid itself, this frame fortuitously captured the previously unknown moon at a range of about 3,900 kilometers (2,400 miles), just over 4 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Ida. Each picture element spans about 39 meters (125 feet) on the surface of the moon. More than a dozen craters larger than 80 meters (250 feet) in diameter are clearly evident, indicating that the moon has suffered numerous collisions from smaller Solar System debris during its history. The larger crater on the terminator is about 300 meters (1,000 feet) across.
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Nome file:DACTYL-PIA00297.jpg
Nome Album:Asteroids and Comets
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Keywords:Asteroids: images from Space
Copyright:NASA - Galileo Project
Dimensione file:7709 Bytes
Aggiunto il:Ott 16, 2004
Dimensioni:700 x 700 pixels
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URL:http://www.lunexit.it/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-2999
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