Tag: South Pole

Good Blessed Tuesday Morning, my dear family, friends & visitors!

Great Goddess, Great God

I greet you at the start of a new day

And thank you for the potential that this day holds

Please send me the best day possible

Help me to feel my best

So I might do my best for myself and for others

Smile upon me as I walk my Path

And guide me so I might walk with wisdom and grace

And shine your light upon the world

As the Sun rises

Fill me with energy and joy

Bless me with Your Presence

And watch ove me and those that I love

So Mote It Be

Astronomy Picture of the Day for Sept. 19th

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos!Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2011 September 19

The South Pole of Asteroid Vesta
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS, DLR, IDA 

 

Explanation: What created the circular structure around the south pole of asteroid Vesta? Pictured above, the bottom of the second largest object in the asteroid belt was recently imaged for the first time by the robotic Dawn satellite that arrived last month. A close inspection of the 260-meter resolution image shows not only hills and craters and cliffs and more craters, but ragged circular features that cover most of the lower right of the 500-kilometer sized object. Early speculation posits that the structure might have been created by a collision and coalescence with a smaller asteroid. Alternatively, the features might have originated in an internal process soon after the asteroid formed. New clues might come in the next few months as Dawn spirals down toward the rocky world and obtains images of increasingly high resolution.