Dawn Approaching Vesta Just Before the Beginning of High Altitude Mapping Orbit

Dawn Approaching Vesta Just Before the Beginning of High Altitude Mapping Orbit
September 30, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA14799
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In this image of the asteroid Vesta, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft just shortly before the beginning of high altitude mapping orbit, north is up and the upper right corner is to the northeast.