Asteroid Vesta and Dwarf Planet Ceres
These Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta and Ceres show two of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. The images were taken to help astronomers plan for the Dawn spacecraft's tour of these asteroids. Ceres is also designated as a dwarf planet. Dawn was the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, L. McFadden (University of Maryland) (Vesta), and J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute) (Ceres)
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Image CreditNASA, ESA, L. McFadden (University of Maryland) (Vesta), and J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute) (Ceres)
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