Help Shape the Future of Space Exploration

Join The Planetary Society Now 

Join our eNewsletter for updates & action alerts

   Please leave this field empty
Multimedia
Facebook Twitter Email RSS AddThis

3-D model of Vesta

Filed under pretty pictures, art, asteroids, asteroid 4 Vesta, astronomy and astrophysics spacecraft, Hubble Space Telescope

Go Back

3-D model of Vesta This simulated view of the second most massive asteroid, Vesta, was created from a topographic model developed from two dozen images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. The most astonishing feature of the model was an impact crater at the south pole (bottom of this image), with a width 80 percent the width of Vesta itself.

Ben Zellner, Peter Thomas, and NASA

Original image data dated on or about December 1, 1994

Comments:

Leave a Comment:

You must be logged in to submit a comment. Log in now.

Fly to an Asteroid!

Send your name and message on Hayabusa-2.

Send your name

Join the New Millennium Committee

Let’s invent the future together!

Become a Member

Connect With Us

Facebook! Twitter! Google+ and more…
Continue the conversation with our online community!

facebook.png twitter.png rss.png youtube.png flickr.png googleplus.png