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Selam Moonlet Formation

Simulated formation of Dinkinesh’s moon Selam, identified as the first confirmed “contact binary” moon.


Animated model of the formation of the asteroid Dinkinesh’s moon Selam. Dinkinesh’s tiny moon was likely built from multiple low-speed collisions between small moonlets, making it the first confirmed “contact binary” moon. The current understanding is that Selam formed not from two, but at least four separate bodies. This simulation shows the Moonlet merger forming the characteristic ridge on the inner lobe of Selam (Selam A), which matches the observations obtained from NASA’s Lucy mission.

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Planetary body sizes

Artistic compilation of the sun, planets, dwarf planets, and the largest moons of our solar system. All planetary radii are to scale.

Artistic compilation of planetary bodies, including the sun, and the planets, dwarf planets, and the largest moons of our solar system. All planetary radii are to scale. Shown are the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth with the Moon, Mars, Jupiter with Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa, Saturn with Titan and Rhea, Uranus with Titania, Neptune with Triton, and Pluto with Charon, Eris, Naumea, Makemake, and Gonggong.

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Planetary spheres art

100-km depth contours outline the basic radial compositional structure of the planetary interiors of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.

No time to visit: 100-km depth contours outline the basic radial compositional structure of the planetary interiors of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. To know about their interiors, one has to do measurements in their vicinity. If you want to travel there – and land –, it takes some serious time, mainly to adjust your space ship to the body’s particular orbital speed: To travel and land on Mars around 7 months, on Venus about 15 months, and on Mercury a whopping 6.5 years. Artwork is based on the data visualisation from s-ink.org/planetary-spheres.

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Planetary spheres

The interiors of rocky planets and the Moon represented by 100-km depth contours outlining the basic compositional structure.

The interiors of rocky planets and the Moon represented by 100-km depth contours outlining the basic compositional structure. Represented are the rocky planetary bodies Earth, with its Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.

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Earth from Moon sketch

Earth from the Moon impression as a flat design sketch.

Earth from the Moon impression as a flat design sketch by Lucía Pérez Díaz.

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Moon topography

Global map of Moon topography. This digital elevation model (DEM) is based on data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA).

Global map of the topography of the Moon. This digital elevation model (DEM) for the Lunar surface is based on data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA; Smith et al., 2010), an instrument on the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft (Tooley et al., 2010). The created DEM represents more than 6.5 billion measurements of Moon topography gathered between July 2009 and July 2013. The Scientific colour map ‘turku‘ is used to represent the data accurately and to all readers.

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