Monday, July 18, 2011

Dawn Spacecraft Snaps Close-up Image of Asteroid Vesta

Source - NASA Science News for July 18, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which over the weekend became the first spacecraft to orbit a main-belt asteroid, has just returned a close-up image of Vesta.
FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18jul_dawn4/

Asteroid Vesta - Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
"Latest Image of Vesta Captured by Dawn on July 17, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 kilometers)."

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA (Image copyright NASA)

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