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Amazingly Detailed New Maps of Asteroid Vesta

Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:30
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Artist's concept of the Dawn spacecraft arriving at Vesta. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Artist’s concept of the Dawn spacecraft arriving at Vesta. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Vesta is one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System. Comprising 9% of the mass in the Asteroid Belt, it is second in size only to the dwarf-planet Ceres. And now, thanks to data obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, Vesta’s surface has been mapped out in unprecedented detail.
These high-resolution geological maps reveal the variety of Vesta’s surface features and provide a window into the asteroid’s history. 

“The geologic mapping campaign at Vesta took about two-and-a-half years to complete, and the resulting maps enabled us to recognize a geologic timescale of Vesta for comparison to other planets,” said David Williams of Arizona State University.

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Post tags: asteroid, asteroid belt, ceres, Dawn mission, drawf-planet, esa, NASA, Rheasilvia, Veneneia, vesta

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