At home in space with Mark Raymond of the Dawn Mission, this week on planetary radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Time for a timely update about the Dawn spacecraft,

which recently departed asteroid Vesta for even bigger series.

But this time will include a video tour of Mark Raymond's home, which is a living tribute

to space exploration. Mark is Dawn's chief engineer and mission director. Everybody else

is also on board for this trip across our solar system

beginning with Emily Lochuwala. Emily let's start today with this blog entry

that you posted on the 16th of November that has to do with the release of Don's data, which actually we thought was happening last January, but apparently not so much.

Yeah, so Don's data from the Vesta phase of its mission or at least the beginning part of the Vesta phase was originally released way early in 2012.

But it turns out that that wasn't an authorized release.

There is a dispute between the principal investigator and the

international astronomical union over the choice of coordinate systems for Vesta,

which held up the whole thing for several months. But that's finally been resolved,

and now there has been a goodly chunk of the data

from Don's Mission Devesta released,

and Don's camera is absolutely amazing,

so these pictures are really gorgeous.

And there is some very nice stuff, a little bit of your own contribution.

I like your little rotating Vesta image is very cute.

Yeah, you know, that's one of the easiest things to do with these images is just to stack them and images very

to get into images is just to stack them and animate them but what I do when I approach a new data set is I try to make it easier for everybody to get into the images

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