{"id":5817,"date":"2016-03-19T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/mountain-and-crater-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-in-3d\/"},"modified":"2016-03-19T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:11:06","slug":"mountain-and-crater-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/mountain-and-crater-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-in-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain and Crater on Dwarf Planet Ceres in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ahuna-mons.jpg' title='Ceres in 3D'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ahuna-mons.jpg' alt='Ceres in 3D' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image is cropped from a 3D Photo found on <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap160319.html\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Get out your red\/blue glasses and gaze across Ceres at mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons. Shown in a 3D anaglyph perspective view, the mosaicked image data was captured in December of 2015, taken from the Dawn spacecraft&#8217;s low-altitude mapping orbit about 385 kilometers above the surface of the dwarf planet. A remarkable dome-shaped feature on Ceres, with steep, smooth sides Ahuna Mons is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter at its base, rising on average 4 kilometers to a flattened summit. Similar in size to mountains found on planet Earth, no other Cerean surface feature is so tall and well-defined. It is not known what process shaped the lonely Ahuna Mons, or if the bright material streaking its steepest side is the same material responsible for Ceres&#8217; famous bright spots. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Image Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">JPL-Caltech<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.igpp.ucla.edu\/\">UCLA<\/a>, MPS\/DLR\/IDA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is cropped from a 3D Photo found on Astronomy Picture of the Day: Get out your red\/blue glasses and gaze across Ceres at mysterious&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobs-3d-stuff","category-nerd-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}