NASA unveils spectacular photos of cratered asteroid

Four years after launch from Cape Canaveral, NASA's ion-drive Dawn spacecraft is finally in orbit around the asteroid Vesta, studying the second largest body in the rubble-strewn belt between Mars and Jupiter in unprecedented detail. Pictures released Monday show a strangely tortured world with huge parallel grooves separating the heavily ...

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