Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Best viewed with red-blue glasses, the video incorporates images from Dawn’s framing camera from July …
A simulated flyover of the most intriguing landmarks on giant asteroid Vesta, as seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA    ⺠Dawn’s mission site
Ride aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on a virtual flyover of giant asteroid Vesta. Mission data was used to create the topography you see. Waypoints include: Divialia Fossa; Marcia crater, part …
Astronomers combined 146 exposures taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make this 73-frame movie of the asteroid Vesta’s rotation. Vesta completes a rotation every 5.34 hours. ⺠Asteroid and …
Dawn, the speedy ion-drive spacecraft, left Earth in 2007 bound for Vesta and Ceres in the Asteroid Belt. These are no ordinary asteroids. Scientists see them as tiny, still born …