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Latest Image of Vesta captured by Dawn on July 17, 2011

Target Name:  Asteroid Vesta
Spacecraft:  Dawn
Instrument:  Framing Camera
Produced by:  NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Cross Reference:  PIA14313
Date Taken:  2011-07-17

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 kilometers).

The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. It is a project of the Discovery Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. UCLA, is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., designed and built the Dawn spacecraft.

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