Dawn Spacecraft's Farewell Portrait of Giant Asteroid Vesta

  • Released Wednesday, November 5, 2014
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 8:52AM
  • ID: 30525

Simulated flight over asteroid Vesta

This simulated flight over Vesta takes the viewer over some of the most intriguing landmarks on the giant asteroid, seen up-close for the first time by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
This animation is based on images taken by Dawn's framing cameras from 2011 to 2012.
Colors have been enhanced.

For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/dawn20120830.html

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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