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Now You Can Fly Around Asteroid Vesta And Explore Every Crevice
NASA launched Dawn spacecraft in 2007 to study two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. And now here is an amazing interactive tool, very similar to Google Earth, called Vesta Trek, which let you explore Vesta — one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System — on your…
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This Is The Dwarf Planet Ceres Spinning On Its Axis
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is currently heading towards the largest celestial body in the Asteroid Belt, known as Ceres. Due to arrive in March, it’s already close enough to image the rocky dwarf planet rotating on its axis.