Dawn on Vesta
![Dawn on Vesta](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PIA15384_hires.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
February 20, 2012
Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA |
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PIA Number | PIA15384 |
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the sun illuminating the landscape of asteroid Vesta during a Vestan 'sunrise'; the sun had a low angle relative to Vesta's surface, just as the sun has a low angle in the sky in the morning on Earth.