NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Photo

Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Dawn mission, in orbit around Vesta, captured the latest image from a distance of about 6,500 miles (10,500 kilometers) kilometers from the giant asteroid.

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