A Global View of Vesta

A Global View of Vesta
December 5, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF/IASF/IFSI
PIA NumberPIA15144
Language
  • english

The visible and infrared mapping spectrometer aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft acquired this set of images during the high-altitude mapping orbit phase at about 420 miles (680 kilometers) above the surface of asteroid Vesta.