Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 13, 2013 #1 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Take a Virtual, High-Resolution Tour of Vesta An atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object (also known as a protoplanet), is now accessible for the public to explore online. The set of maps was created from mosaics of 10,000 images taken by Dawn’s framing camera instrument at a low altitude of about 130 miles (210 kilometers). The maps are mostly at a scale about that of regional road-touring maps, where every inch of map is equivalent to a little more than 3 miles of asteroid (1 centimeter equals 2 kilometers). Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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