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Dawn · Earth · Mars · 4 Vesta · 1 Ceres First image of asteroids (Ceres and Vesta) taken from Mars. The image was made by the Curiosity rover on 20 April 2014. Animation of Dawn 's trajectory around 4 Vesta from 15 July 2011 to 10 September 2012
English: Asteroid 4 Vesta from Dawn on July 17, 2011. The image was taken from a distance of 9,500 miles (15,000 km) away from Vesta. ... Images featured on the ...
The largest asteroids with an accurately measured mass, because they have been studied by the probe Dawn, are 1 Ceres with a mass of (939.3 ± 0.5) × 10 18 kg, and 4 Vesta at (259.076 ± 0.001) × 10 18 kg.
Dawn image of Ceres from 13,600 km, May 4, 2015. ... Animation of Dawn 's trajectory around 4 Vesta from July 15, 2011, to September 10, ...
Claudia is a small crater that formerly defined the prime meridian of the asteroid 4 Vesta. [b] The convention of defining Vesta's prime meridian from Claudia is informally referred to as the Claudia coordinate system.
PHOTO: Giant Asteroid Vesta (NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images) When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just a 1.3% probability of it hitting Earth. The likelihood ...
Pages in category "4 Vesta" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."