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The Dawn spacecraft's photos of Vesta show a cratered surface texture. Here is one such photo: .

The standard Asteroid texture available for Celestia is a bit too smooth and has very few craters. Is there a texture available for Celestia users to download with more craters that might more closely match Vesta's surface? If so, I'd be grateful for the link to it (I checked CML and did not find a suitable one)

Thanks

Frank

You can use Vesta itself. There isn't a complete map still, but there will be soon. I made a coarse attempt yesterday with the map they put in the PDS journal. Looks promising. Unfortunately they didn't include the southern regions, with the central peak...

I'm pretty sure there will be a good full map very soon. Hopefully a 3D model also. If not, some of our modeller magicians will make one.

Hi friends!
What do you think about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJv4HnFIqI

That movie it's of course fantastic. It's one of the images released yesterday at the press conference. One of the guys at unmannedspaceflight did a great job smoothing it out. See it at Emily Lakdawalla's blog: http://planetary.org/blog/article/00003128/.

The grooves, the cliffs, the giant crater, the inmense mountain, the debris fields, the craters of varying composition, it's all making Vesta a fantastic world. And it's just the very first days! This is not a flyby, Dawn will be there for one year! Man, we are livng in the future.

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A guy by the name of Adam Hurcewicz made a preliminary panorama of Vesta and posted it at unmennedspaceflight. I wrapped it around the starndard Vesta model in Celestia and the result is very good, and promising of a still better future. I made a short movie, which you can see here.

The video is not public, it can only be reached via that link. I hope Adam approves it. I tried to contact him without success. I tried to post in UMSF but with a new account I still cannot post...

abramson wrote:A guy by the name of Adam Hurcewicz made a preliminary panorama of Vesta and posted it at unmennedspaceflight. I wrapped it around the starndard Vesta model in Celestia and the result is very good, and promising of a still better future. I made a short movie, which you can see here.

The video is not public, it can only be reached via that link. I hope Adam approves it. I tried to contact him without success. I tried to post in UMSF but with a new account I still cannot post...

Hi guys, I made this map from extracted images from animation of rotating VESTA and put them to PTGui.

Adam

PS. of course, I approve this map to use.