Take a virtual tour of Vesta with new high resolution atlases
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
An atlas of the asteroid, Vesta, created from images taken during the Dawn Mission’s Low Altitude Mapping Orbit, is now accessible for the public to explore online. The set of maps has been created from mosaics of 10,000 images from Dawn’s framing camera instrument, taken at an average altitude of about 210 kilometers.