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Vesta False Color Shape Model

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 15, 2011

A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.

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