High-resolution new maps show the cratered, rocky surface of the huge asteroid Vesta in unprecedented detail, researchers say. Images captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft were woven together to create ...

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Images from NASA’s Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.

A geological map of minor planet Vesta has been released by NASA, revealing a body riddled by the impact of countless impacts, taking place over billions of years. Vesta has a mean diameter of around ...

Vesta, an asteroid the size of Arizona, gets its own geologic map showing its history of meteorite impact craters over its billions of years of existence. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.

In 2011 the unmanned Dawn spacecraft became humanity’s first ever emissary to the huge asteroid Vesta, which resides in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And using images collected by the ...

If future space travelers ever have to get around on Vesta, the second most massive body in the asteroid belt, they may well rely upon a just-released map that's based on data from NASA's Dawn mission ...

Images from NASA’s Dawn mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.