Monday, July 18, 2011

It's official: Probe is orbiting giant asteroid
[ Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:38:26 GMT ]

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the asteroid Vesta on July 9, from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers).An unmanned NASA probe made history 117 million miles from Earth on Saturday when it arrived at the huge asteroid Vesta, making it the first spacecraft ever to orbit an object in the solar system's asteroid belt.


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