Dawn brings vistas of Vesta

[PTY]

Dawn brings vistas of Vesta:


In this image, obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft, a set of three craters, informally nicknamed "Snowman" by the camera's team members, is located in the northern hemisphere of Vesta.
Nasa's Dawn spacecraft slipped into orbit around Vesta in July and has been beaming back images of the surface from various altitudes.
Scientists say Vesta's diverse surface features make it more like a rocky planet than a garden-variety asteroid. They presented their findings Monday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.