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Space Spectacular — Rotation Movies of Vesta

September 18, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Take us into orbit Mr. Sulu! The Dawn science team has released two spectacular rotation movies of the entire globe of the giant asteroid Vesta. The flyover videos give the distinct impression that you are standing on the bridge of the [...]

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First Image Captured by NASAs Jupiter bound Juno; Earth – Moon Portrait

August 31, 2011

NASA’s solar powered Jupiter bound Juno orbiter has captured her first image – a beautiful portrait of the Earth & Moon – since the probe blasted off from the home planet. Juno lifted off 25 days ago at 12: 25 p.m. on August 5 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station [...]

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Dawn Spirals Down Closer to Vesta’s South Pole Impact Basin

July 23, 2011

NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Orbiter is now spiraling down ever closer to the protoplanet Vesta – since arriving on July 16 – and capturing magnificent new high resolution images of the huge impact basin at the South Pole that dominates the surface. See enhanced image here. The Dawn team just released a new image taken by [...]

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Dawn Exceeds Wildest Expectations as First Ever Spacecraft to Orbit a Protoplanet – Vesta

July 18, 2011

NASA’s super exciting Dawn mission to the Asteroid Belt marked a major milestone in human history by becoming the first ever spacecraft from Planet Earth to achieve orbit around a Protoplanet – Vesta – on July 16. Dawn was launched in September 2007 and was 117 million miles (188 million km) distant from Earth as [...]

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Dawn Closing in on Asteroid Vesta as Views Exceed Hubble

June 30, 2011

A new world in our Solar System is about to be unveiled for the first time – the mysterious protoplanet Vesta, which is the second most massive object in the main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA’s Dawn Asteroid orbiter has entered its final approach phase to Vesta and for the first time is [...]

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