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===Observations from ''Dawn''=== Vesta comes into view as the [[Dawn (spacecraft)|''Dawn'' spacecraft]] approaches and enters orbit: <gallery> <!-- File:Vesta image by Dawn probe.jpg|Vesta from 265,000 km<br />(14 June 2011) too fuzzy? --> File:Vesta 20110701 cropped.jpg|Vesta from 100,000 km<br />(1 July 2011) File:Dawn-image-070911.jpg|Vesta from 41,000 km<br />(9 July 2011) File:Vesta from Dawn, July 17.jpg|In orbit at 16,000 km<br />(17 July 2011) File:Vesta 4.jpg|In orbit from 10,500 km<br />(18 July 2011) File:Vesta darkside.jpg|The northern hemisphere from 5,200 km<br />(23 July 2011) File:Vesta Full-Frame.jpg|In orbit from 5,200 km<br />(24 July 2011) File:Vesta 20110731.jpg|In orbit from 3,700 km<br />(31 July 2011) File:Vesta Rotation.gif|Full rotation<br />(1 August 2011) File:Vesta full mosaic.jpg|Composite greyscale image File:Vesta Cratered terrain with hills and ridges.jpg|Cratered terrain with hills and ridges<br />(6 August 2011) File:Vesta densely cratered terrain near terminator.jpg|Densely cratered terrain near terminator<br />(6 August 2011) File:Vesta Craters in various states of degradation.jpg|Vestan craters in various states of degradation, with troughs at bottom<br />(6 August 2011) File:Central Mound at the South Pole Asteroid Vesta Hillshade.png|Hill shaded central mound at the south pole of Vesta<br />(2 February 2015) </gallery> ==== True-color images ==== <gallery> Vesta in natural color.jpg Vesta-SouthPole.png Vesta 5755-728.png </gallery> Detailed images retrieved during the high-altitude (60β70 m/pixel) and low-altitude (~20 m/pixel) mapping orbits are available on the Dawn Mission website of JPL/NASA.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/vesta_dawn_gallery_2.asp |title=Dawn Mission website of JPL/NASA |date=22 October 2018 }}</ref>
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