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Vesta rotates below Dawn
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As Dawn continued its approach to Vesta on June 20, 2011, it occasionally quit thrusting and turned to the spinning asteroid to perform a "rotation characterization," seeing all longitudes as Vesta rotated beneath the spacecraft.
NASA / JPL / UCLA / MPS / DLR / PSI
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