Dawn mission gets Vesta asteroid target practice
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 15:20
in Astronomy & Space
In the lead-up to orbiting the second most massive body in the asteroid belt this coming July, planners of NASA's Dawn mission to the giant asteroid Vesta and scientists have been practicing mapping Vesta's surface, producing still images and a rotating animation that includes the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface might look like.