NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 24, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers). Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 15, and will spend a year orbiting the body. After that, the next stop on its itinerary will be an encounter with the dwarf planet Ceres.
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Notes: For more information, see NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta. Also, a closeup view of the "Snowman Craters" can be found here.
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