An Asteroid at Dawn, the Spacecraft That Is
Credit: NASA JPL-CALTECH/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
NASA's Dawn spacecraft collected this image of the asteroid Vesta on July 9 from a range of 26,000 mi., using its German-made framing camera as it closed in for orbital insertion. Designed to be the first spacecraft to orbit a main-belt asteroid, Dawn was expected to be captured by the protoplanet's...
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