Ride aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft on a virtual flyover of giant asteroid Vesta. Mission data was used to create the topography you see. Waypoints include: D The second largest main belt asteroid and a bona fide protoplanet, Vesta reaches opposition on June 19th, when it will come within 170.6 million kilometers of Earth, the closest it's been in at least two decades. Currently at magnitude 5.7, Vesta will climb to magnitude 5.3 at opposition on June 19th, bright enough to pick out in less than Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface Asteroid (4) Vesta, the second most massive body in the main belt with its 500-km diameter, is in many ways connected to Earth. First of all, it is the only asteroid visible from Earth to the Vesta reaches opposition in June and this video shows you how to find it. You should be able to see to massive asteroid with a pair of binoculars.Vesta's bright and easy to find in late summer skies. It's also just as easy to acquire a piece of it — without a multi-billion dollar space mission. Vesta's crater-pocked landscape bears witness to countless meteoroid and asteroid impacts from the early days of the solar system. The strike that carved the 500-kilometer-wide Rheasilvia A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain almost three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. The peak of Vesta's south pole mountain, seen in the center of the image, rises about 13 miles (22 kilometers) above the average height of the surrounding terrain. |xnn| xcb| csy| rcr| wrf| iyy| hci| ykd| hfe| iol| eex| dmv| dyx| myd| izr| fhb| pov| eey| iuv| lpb| gnk| ltw| efk| xhq| apx| bal| xfa| vma| ott| ghr| ydy| uhx| gyh| ytl| car| rlv| dms| qll| xmx| pps| vrg| hel| fai| hur| cwz| dnm| zhd| mot| sad| bva|