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Image of Vesta Captured by Dawn on July 1, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 1, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel ...
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Image of Vesta Captured by Dawn on June 24, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on June 24, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 95,000 miles (152,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel...
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Dawn Approaching Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image on its approach to the protoplanet Vesta, the second-most massive object in the main asteroid belt. The image was obtained on June 20, 2011, when the approac...
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Possible Piece of Vesta
Scientists believe a large number of the meteorites that are found on Earth originate from the protoplanet Vesta. A cataclysmic impact at the south pole of Vesta, the second most massive object in the...
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Vesta in Spectrometer View
On June 8, 2011, the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured the instrument's first images of Vesta that are larger than a few pixels, from a distance of about...
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Hubble and Dawn Views of Vesta
These views of the protoplanet Vesta were obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image from Dawn, on the left, is a little more than twice as sharp as the image from...
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Vesta's Surface Comes into View
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Dawn's First Glimpse of Vesta -- Processed
This image, processed to show the true size of the giant asteroid Vesta, shows Vesta in front of a spectacular background of stars. It was obtained by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...
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Dawn's First Glimpse of Vesta -- Unprocessed
This image shows the first, unprocessed image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft of the giant asteroid Vesta in front of a background of stars. It was obtained by Dawn's framing camera on May 3, 2011,...
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft
Artist's concept of NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The giant asteroid Vesta, Dawn's next destination, is on the lower left. Another larger asteroid and Dawn’s second destination, Ceres, is on the upper right...
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Dawn's Camera Looks Out
These images of the star field demonstrate that the framing cameras on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft are functioning flawlessly. They were obtained on March 16, 2011.
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Anaglyph of Vesta Model
This anaglyph -- best viewed through red-blue glasses -- shows a 3-D model of the protoplanet Vesta, using scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet might look like. It was...
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Model of Vesta
This image shows a model of the protoplanet Vesta, using scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet might look like. It was created as part of an exercise for NASA's Dawn mi...
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Simulated Vesta from the South Pole
This image shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like from the south pole, as projected onto a sphere 250 kilometers (160 miles) in radius. I...
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Rotating Vesta
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Astronomers combined 146 exposures taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to mak... -
The Faces of Vesta
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped these images of the asteroid Vesta in preparation for the Dawn spacecraft's visit in 2011.
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Dawn Spacecraft View of Mars
This near-infrared image from the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft was taken near the point of closest approach to Mars on Feb. 17, 2009, during Dawn's gravity assist flyby.
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