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| − | + | NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers) away from Vesta, which is also considered a protoplanet because it is a large body that almost became a planet. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 2.4 miles (3.8 kilometers). | |
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| + | Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA | ||
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[[Category:Main Belt]] | [[Category:Main Belt]] | ||
Revision as of 06:08, 16 July 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers) away from Vesta, which is also considered a protoplanet because it is a large body that almost became a planet. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 2.4 miles (3.8 kilometers).
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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| current | 12:56, 19 September 2012 |  | 715 × 694 (43 KB) | Robkelk (Talk | contribs) | Replaced earlier image with even crisper composite image - source http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120919.html |
| 06:07, 16 July 2011 |  | 800 × 600 (18 KB) | Mal-3 (Talk | contribs) | Replaced blurry Hubble image with nice, crisp image from Dawn. | |
| 19:59, 21 February 2010 |  | 180 × 180 (5 KB) | Robkelk (Talk | contribs) | removed text from lower third of image, cropped some of the black space around the image | |
| 17:08, 24 January 2010 |  | 267 × 325 (9 KB) | Robkelk (Talk | contribs) | Hubble Space Telescope image Category:Places in Fenspace Category:Main Belt |
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