Two Views of Vesta Bright and Dark

Two Views of Vesta Bright and Dark
September 27, 2013
CreditNASA/ESA/PSI/MIT and NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA17465
Language
  • english

These two maps of the giant asteroid Vesta show patterns of brightness from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (top) and NASA's Dawn spacecraft (bottom). Hubble's view is from an orbit around Earth. Dawn went into orbit around Vesta from 2011 to 2012.