Asteroid or Mini-Planet? Hubble Maps the Ancient Surface of Vesta
This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope series of 24 images showing the full 5.34-hour rotation of the 325-mile diameter 525 kilometer asteroid Vesta.
- Date
- 2013-09-27
- Photographer / author
- NASA/STScI/Georgia Southern University
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Asteroid or Mini-Planet? Hubble Maps the Ancient Surface of Vesta" (2013-09-27). NASA/JPL/NASA/STScI/Georgia Southern University. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17467Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 17358.
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