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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Vesta


Note: If all has gone well, the spacecraft Dawn should have gone into orbit around the asteroid Vesta today.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 2.4 miles (3.8 kilometers).

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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