Rosetta triumphs at asteroid Lutetia
Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 16:35
in Astronomy & Space
Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA’s Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid showing it is most probably a primitive survivor from the violent birth of the Solar System.
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