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Touring the Giant Asteroid Vesta

Touring the Giant Asteroid Vesta
Photojournal: PIA17480
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 13, 2013

This atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.

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