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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Vesta in False Colors


NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 24, 2011. Scientists are studying image like these to better understand the different materials on the surface.

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

Note: This caption is remarkably short on details about the above photo, but the picture is too nice not to publish.

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