Check out the Astronomy Picture of the Day for Oct 1
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0410/earth_toutatis_big.gif
Anyone know what they used to generate this image - it sure doesn't look as good as a Celestia image!
APOD for Oct 1
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APOD for Oct 1
Clive Pottinger
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Clive,
That's the same picture APOD used in 1997, and was generated by E. De Jong and S. Suzuki.
See http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970120.html0
Apparently they work for JPL's Digital Image Animation Laboratory http://www-dial.jpl.nasa.gov/, which develops visualization software for NASA.
I couldn't find anything explict about what software was used, but I'm guessing that the picture is a frame from an animation that they created in 1996. Things have come a long way since then.
See http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Our.Solar.System/Small.Bodies/96-11-27.Intriguing.Asteroid.Toutatis
That's the same picture APOD used in 1997, and was generated by E. De Jong and S. Suzuki.
See http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970120.html0
Apparently they work for JPL's Digital Image Animation Laboratory http://www-dial.jpl.nasa.gov/, which develops visualization software for NASA.
I couldn't find anything explict about what software was used, but I'm guessing that the picture is a frame from an animation that they created in 1996. Things have come a long way since then.
See http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Our.Solar.System/Small.Bodies/96-11-27.Intriguing.Asteroid.Toutatis
Selden