NASA’s Dawn Sends Detailed Image of Vesta

Spacecraft Dawn has captured its first close-up image of Vesta from 9,500 miles away at the start of its one-year science orbit of the asteroid.
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/571327main_pia14313-43_946-710.jpg" alt="NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17 from about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 kilometers). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)" title="NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17 from about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 kilometers). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)" width="575" class="size-medium wp-image-1800747"/></a>
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17 from about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 kilometers). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)
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