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Dawn’s Parting Shots of Vesta
Dawn's look at asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft heads off to Ceres. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA As Dawn says goodbye to…
Wanted: Asteroid Mappers to Help Scientists Delve Through Data from Dawn
Many types of craters are captured in this panorama of recent Dawn images. Credit: NASA There’s a new citizen science…
On to Ceres: Dawn Spacecraft Ready to Say Farewell to Asteroid Vesta
The feat has never been accomplished before and next week’s departure for the Dawn spacecraft from Vesta will be monumental.…
Vesta’s Amazing Technicolor Surface
A brand new 3-D video map from the Dawn mission provides a unique view of the varied surface of the…
The Bright and Dark Side of Vesta’s Craters
[/caption] Bright craters, dark craters... craters shaped like butterflies... they're all represented here in a panorama made from images acquired…
By Dawn’s Early Light
[/caption] Sunrise on Vesta highlights the asteroid's varied surface textures in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, released on Monday,…
Asteroid’s Unusual Light and Dark Crater
[/caption] Light and dark material spreads outward from a 5-km-wide crater on Vesta in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft,…
Looming Larger: Dawn Approaches Vesta, Enters Orbit July 15-16
[/caption] As we anticipate the Dawn spacecraft going into orbit of Vesta within the next 36 hours, here's the latest…
Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt
The Dawn spacecraft - which is on a course to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres - has…