{"id":181471,"date":"2013-02-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"4441b01f1c60efc5193cf48b2b4db8d1"},"modified":"2013-02-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T11:00:00","slug":"steins-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=181471","title":{"rendered":"Steins revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/02\/steins_revisited\/12531254-1-eng-GB\/Steins_revisited_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAsteroid Steins was first imaged by ESA\u2019s Rosetta spacecraft using the OSIRIS camera on 5 September 2008. Image stacking and processing by amateur astrophotographer Ted Stryk has enhanced the shadows in order to emphasise the difference between bright crater rims and their shadowed floors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, this technique can also create some artifacts, such as the illusion of boulders protruding from the surface, that are not present in the raw data.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn total, over 40 craters have been identified on the surface of Steins, the largest appearing at the \u2018top\u2019 of this frame being the 2 km-wide crater named Diamond. Craters on Steins are named after gems, following Stein\u2019s appearance as a diamond shape.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was featured as Space Science Image of the Week on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Asteroid_Steins_hidden_gems\">18 February 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/02\/steins_revisited\/12531254-1-eng-GB\/Steins_revisited_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAsteroid Steins was first imaged by ESA\u2019s Rosetta spacecraft using the OSIRIS camera on 5 September 2008. Image stacking and processing by amateur astrophotographer Ted Stryk has enhanced the shadows in order to emphasise the difference between bright crater rims and their shadowed floors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, this technique can also create some artifacts, such as the illusion of boulders protruding from the surface, that are not present in the raw data.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn total, over 40 craters have been identified on the surface of Steins, the largest appearing at the \u2018top\u2019 of this frame being the 2 km-wide crater named Diamond. Craters on Steins are named after gems, following Stein\u2019s appearance as a diamond shape.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was featured as Space Science Image of the Week on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Asteroid_Steins_hidden_gems\">18 February 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}