Comparing Vesta’s Topography
September 27, 2013
| Credit | NASA/ESA/Cornell and NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA |
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| PIA Number | PIA17466 |
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These two images compare topographic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta as discerned by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (top) and as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft (bottom). Hubble has been in an orbit around Earth, while Dawn orbited Vesta from 2011 to 2012.