Vesta's Surface Comes into View
Photojournal: PIA14121
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 13, 2011

This image from the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows surface details beginning to resolve as the spacecraft closes in on the giant asteroid Vesta on June 1, 2011, from a distance of about 300,000 miles (483,000 kilometers).

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