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Dawn captures first image of nearing asteroid

Submit on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 22:57

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn expects to achieve orbit around Vesta on 16 July, when the asteroid is about 187 million km from Earth.

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