Large Asteroid Vesta
Hubble captured these images of the asteroid Vesta to help scientists refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's visit in 2011. Scientists constructed a video from the images that helped improve pointing instructions for Dawn during its orbit of Vesta. Analyses of Hubble images revealed a pole orientation, or tilt, of approximately four degrees more to the asteroid's east than scientists had previously thought it had.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), and L. McFadden (NASA GSFC)
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Image CreditNASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), and L. McFadden (NASA GSFC)
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