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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed data that shows protoplanet Vesta is continually stirring its outermost layer. The data shows that a common form of weathering that affects many airless bodies like Vesta in the inner solar system helps to keep them looking younger by not aging the outermost layer. Findings described in an upcoming issue of the journal Nature show that data indicates that carbon-rich asteroids have been...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Veros Systems, Inc. and Vesta Partners, LLC announced their partnership agreement today at the SAP Best Practices for Oil and Gas event in San Antonio. The two firms will collaborate to provide a low cost, end-to-end solution, integrating Vero's predictive intelligence software with SAP's extensive Enterprise Asset Management capabilities. "We are excited to work with Vesta Partners," said Veros Systems' CEO, Allan Wilson. "Vesta's...

ATLANTA, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Vesta, a leader in electronic payment solutions, today announces AMP (Analytical, Marketing and Promotions), an offer management platform designed for MNOs. The platform enables Vesta's clients to mine consumer transactional, demographic and usage data to deliver real-time, targeted messages to stimulate usage, increase top-up amounts, up-sell rate plans, and more. AMP is available as a value-added service for operators using Vesta's PaaS...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists have determined that the second-most-massive asteroid in the solar system may have once had an active dynamo. A meteorite found in Antarctica believed to be from Vesta holds clues to the asteroid once harboring a molten, swirling mass of conducting fluid generating a magnetic field, or dynamo. Scientists suspect that the composition of asteroids offer information about the diversity of planetary bodies within the early...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online New research reinforces the idea that the asteroid Vesta may actually have more of a history to it than just being a floating space rock. Scientists analyzed data taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft and found that the enormous troughs that reach across the asteroid may be faults that formed when another asteroid ran into Vesta's south pole. This could indicate that Vesta has a layered interior, a quality shared by planets and large moons....

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Astronomers suggest that water may have been delivered to Vesta through a build-up of small particles during an epoch when the Solar System was rich in dust. The team presented their research at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid on Wednesday, offering up a radically different hypothesis from the way in which hydrous materials are deposited on other cosmic objects. Using data from NASA's Dawn mission, the team found...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Two new papers, based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn mission, show volatile, or easily evaporated, materials have colored Vesta's surface in a broad swath around its equator. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The volatiles were released from minerals likely...

Watch the Video: Hydrogen Hot Spots on Vesta Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to findings reported in the journal Science, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed signs of hydrated minerals on the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn did not find actual water ice at Vesta, but it did reveal signs of hydrated minerals delivered by meteorites and dust to the asteroid. "The source of the hydrogen within Vesta's surface appears to be hydrated minerals delivered by...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As NASA's Dawn mission spacecraft speeds away from the giant asteroid Vesta, mission control has released two parting views using images that were among the last taken by Dawn. One set of images is a color-coded relief map of Vesta's northern hemisphere, from the pole to the equator. It incorporates images taken as Dawn began to creep over the high northern latitudes of Vesta. These were dark when Dawn arrived in June 2011. The...

[ Watch the Video: Dawn's Greatest Hits at Vesta ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA's Dawn spacecraft has escaped the gravitational pull of the giant asteroid Vesta and is on its way to the dwarf planet Ceres. The Dawn mission, supposed to last nearly a decade, has been on a journey to study Vesta and Ceres, celestial bodies believed to have accreted early in the history of the solar system. Both speak to conditions and processes present in the early...