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

[/caption] 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 … Continue reading Dawn Spirals Down Closer to Vesta’s South Pole Impact Basin