Vesta’s Surface Comes into View
June 13, 2011
This movie shows surface details beginning to resolve as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft closes in on the giant asteroid Vesta. The framing camera aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft obtained the images used for this animation on June 1, 2011, from a distance of about 300,000 miles. credit: NASA
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Technology Internet, Asteroids, Space exploration, Unmanned spacecraft, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 4 Vesta, Discovery program, Dawn, Ceres