File:Viewing the South Pole of Vesta.jpg

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Summary

Description	English: This image shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta.
Date	16 September 2011
Source	JPL PHOTOJOURNAL
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

The image was recorded with the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of about 2,700 kilometres. The image resolution is about 260 meters per pixel.

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