Asteroid close-up captured by spacecraft

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 08:00 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 2.7 billion kilometre journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space agency said Monday.

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