Notes
Presenting Vesta the Asteroid
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around asteroid Vesta on July 16, 2011.
Interesting facts:
1) Photo is taken from the spacecraft Dawn 9,900 miles (16,000km) away.
2) We’re uncertain of Vesta’s mass so we played it safe and took a high orbit.
3) Over the next 3 weeks we’ll lower the orbit and get a much more accurate calculation of her mass and even higher resolution images.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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