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Movie of Vesta Target Name:   Asteroid Vesta Spacecraft:   HST Produced by:   B. Zellner (Georgia Southern University) and NASA Copyright:  Public Domain Related Document Asteroid Vesta Download Options Name Type Width x Height x Frames Size vesta.mpg MPEG 144 x 144 x ? 80K This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope animation composed of a series of 24 images showing the full 5.34-hour rotation of the 525-kilometer (326-mile) diameter asteroid Vesta. Hubble resolved features as small as 56 kilometers (35 miles) across, allowing astronomers to map Vesta's geologically diverse terrain. This sequence was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 between November 28 and December 1, 1994, when Vesta was at a distance of 251 million kilometers (156 million miles) from Earth.

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