Craters on Vesta
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Craters on Vesta
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the protoplanet Vesta with its framing camera on July 18, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 10,500 kilometers. The smallest detail visible is about 2.0 km.
In August, Dawn will begin sending images from its high resolution camera.
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Tags: Asteroid, Dawn, DLR, IDA, JPL, MPS, NASA, UCLA, Vesta
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