Latest Image of Vesta Captured by Dawn on 17 July 2011
Date: 17 Jul 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on 17 July 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 km) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 km).


Last Update: 18 Jul 2011 (AMB)

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA