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A new study has found that Vesta once had a molten, swirling mass of fluid inside the asteroid that generated a magnetic field. 
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Data from spacecraft solidify asteroid's place in planetary evolution.
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This ancient battered asteroid is an analog of the very early Earth, Mars and other rocky planets. Vesta didn't grow but has now been reclassified as a small planet. NASA's Dawn acquired the data from which this virtual video was built.
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The gravity field of the giant asteroid closely matches the surface topography, as seen in this rotation animation of data from NASA's Dawn mission.
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Vesta, the second-largest object in the asteroid belt, is bright enough to be seen from Earth without a telescope. Now, thanks to NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists can take a much closer look at Vesta. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights.
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This image, one of the first obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows an area within the Rheasilvia basin in the south polar area of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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NASA's Dawn mission currently orbiting Vesta has revealed signs of differentiation - a process where dense materials sink to the center and less dense rise to the surface. This is a characteristic of a terrestrial planets such as our own.
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This image, taken December 6, 2011, combines two separate views of the giant asteroid Vesta obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The images were taken by Dawn's framing camera.
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New views of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal it is more like a planet than an asteroid, scientists said Monday.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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A new video from NASA's Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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330 mile-wide Vesta, one of the largest asteroids, must have been whacked by two very large objects. This virtual view of its South Pole shows features called the 'snowman' craters and a crater called Oppia
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Vesta looks like a little planet. "We didn't find gold on Vesta, but it is still a gold mine," said UCLA professor Christopher Russell and principal investigator of NASA's Dawn mission. The journal Science publishes six papers about Vesta on May 11.
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Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows the sun illuminating the landscape of Vesta during a Vestan ‘sunrise’.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has swooped down to the closest orbit above the monster asteroid Vesta that the crafts cameras and spectrometers will ever glimpse and the probe has begun transmitting these highest resolution pictures to anxiously waiting scientists...
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of science observations.
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NASA's Dawn probe, now orbiting Vesta in the asteroid belt, has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial planet."
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Vesta appears in a spectacular rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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Using high-resolution imagery of the space rock beamed back from the Dawn spacecraft, NASA has produced this 3D video. Includes view's of the "snowman" craters and a 16 mile high mountain (double the size of Mt.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has uncovered new details about the asteroid Vesta, including a massive mountain in the space rock's southern hemisphere that is one of the largest in the solar system.
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