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Asteroid Vesta Floats in Space in High Resolution 3-D

February 6, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies Eastern Hemisphere taken by NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Orbiter. Haul out your red-cyan 3-D anaglyph glasses and lets go whirling around Vesta and [...]

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Rainbow of Colors Reveal Asteroid Vesta as More Like a Planet

December 7, 2011

The giant Asteroid Vesta is among the most colorful bodies in our entire solar system and it appears to be much more like a terrestrial planet than a mere asteroid, say scientists deciphering stunning new images and measurements of Vesta received from NASA’s revolutionary Dawn spacecraft. The space probe only recently began circling about the [...]

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Vrooming over Vivid Vestan Vistas in Vibrant 3 D – Video

December 2, 2011

It’s time to put on your 3-D glasses and go soaring all over the giant asteroid Vesta – thanks to the superlative efforts of Dawn’s international science team. Now you can enjoy vivid ‘Vestan Vistas’ like you’ve never ever seen before in a vibrant 3 D video newly created by Dawn team member Ralf Jaumann, [...]

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Rheasilvia – Super Mysterious South Pole Basin at Vesta is Named after Romulus and Remus Roman Mother

September 21, 2011

Video caption: Rheasilvia Impact Basin and Vesta shape model. This false-color shape model video of the giant asteroid Vesta was created from images taken by the framing camera aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Rheasilvia – South Pole Impact Basin – shown at bottom (left) and head on (at right). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA ‘Rheasilvia’ – that’s the brand [...]

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Ion Propulsion

October 31, 2010

AS mankind contemplates the next steps of space exploration the biggest question is what the next generation of propulsion systems will be. The history of manned space exploration is now 50 years old and many would wonder if having mastered the basic technologies if they can be improved upon. Propulsion is the basis of doing [...]

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