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A Full-Frame View of Vesta

A Full-Frame View of Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14778
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 22, 2011

This full-frame view of asteroid Vesta was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft with its framing camera on July, 24 2011. This image was taken through the camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of about 485 meters per pixel.

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