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Dawn Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 20, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Two new papers based on observations from the...
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Dawn journal: hydrazine haste makes waste | The Planetary Society
Rheasilvia central peak, Vesta. Approximately true color image of the south polar mountain in center of the crater Rheasilvia. Images 0005756, 0005761, 0005755. Taken on August 20, 2011 from an...
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Dawn races into 2013 on target for Ceres — Space Daily
Dawn races into 2013 on target for Ceres by Marc Rayman for Dawn News Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 04, 2013 Dawn concludes 2012 almost 13,000 times farther from Vesta than it began the year. At that time, it...
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Asteroid Vesta more like Earth than realized, study shows — phys.org
Asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA The cold, dead asteroid Vesta might have had a very active inner life early in the solar system’s history, according to an unusual analysis of...
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Dawn journal: Vesta’s mountains, gorges and craters | The Planetary Society
Numisia Crater (left) and a shallow, unnamed crater (right) show dark, carbon-rich materials around their rims, a common feature of Vesta’s smaller craters. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Dawn...
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Violent Asteroid Crashes Shaped Vesta Protoplanet’s Innards | Space.com
The young asteroid Vesta started off as a round protoplanet, but a massive collision early in its life caused it to become more elliptical in shape and created the giant crater Rheasilvia, scientists...
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Asteroid Excavation: Probing the interior of Vesta through major impacts |...
Figure 2 – The final distribution of material after two successive impacts. The color corresponds to the depth the material originated from before the two impacts. Left: Southern hemisphere (location...
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Dawn journal: Revisiting orbital mechanics | The Planetary Society
Oppia Crater in false color Vesta’s Oppia Crater is seen here in false color, as photographed by Dawn’s Framing Camera. The image has been merged with a topographical map to enhance depth perception....
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