Monday, August 01, 2011

Dawn's Smooth Move

Source - NASA Science News for August 1, 2011

Today's story from Science@NASA unveils Dawn's first full-frame image of Vesta and describes the unique way Dawn entered orbit around the giant asteroid.

FULL STORY at: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/01aug_smoothmove/


In addition to the article above NASA also posted today the "Vesta Full Rotation Movie" below:



(Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA)

"In this movie, strung together from a series of images provided by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft, we see a full rotation of Vesta, which occurs over the course of roughly five hours."

Here is the original URL for the video: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1009

Many thanks to for posting this video to Youtube.

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