Full View of Asteroid Vesta
As NASA's Dawn spacecraft travels to its next destination, this mosaic
synthesizes some of the best views the spacecraft had of the giant asteroid
Vesta. Dawn studied Vesta from July 2011 to September 2012. The towering
mountain at the south pole - more than twice the height of Mount Everest - is
visible at the bottom of the image. The set of three craters known as the
"snowman" can be seen at the top left.
These images are the last in Dawn's Image of the Day series during the cruise to Dawn's second destination, Ceres. A full set of Dawn data is being archived at http://pds.nasa.gov/ .
The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington D.C. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. The Dawn framing cameras were developed and built under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, with significant contributions by DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig. The Framing Camera project is funded by the Max Planck Society, DLR, and NASA/JPL.
> Read more: Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA
These images are the last in Dawn's Image of the Day series during the cruise to Dawn's second destination, Ceres. A full set of Dawn data is being archived at http://pds.nasa.gov/ .
The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington D.C. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. The Dawn framing cameras were developed and built under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, with significant contributions by DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig. The Framing Camera project is funded by the Max Planck Society, DLR, and NASA/JPL.
> Read more: Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA
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