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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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