Picture: Asteroid Has Mountain Three Times as Tall as Everest

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 15:30 in Astronomy & Space

The asteroid Vesta hosts a peak that's three times as tall as Mount Everest, seen in a new picture from a NASA spacecraft.

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