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![Up close with a giant asteroid: Stunning images of Vesta from a passing Nasa spacecraft | Daily Mail Online Up close with a giant asteroid: Stunning images of Vesta from a passing Nasa spacecraft | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/11/article-0-14F65110000005DC-182_964x629.jpg)
Up close with a giant asteroid: Stunning images of Vesta from a passing Nasa spacecraft | Daily Mail Online
![NASA's Dawn mission: topography of the northern and southern hemispheres of the giant asteroid Vesta, updated with pictures obtained during Dawn's last look back. Around the time of Dawn's departure from Vesta NASA's Dawn mission: topography of the northern and southern hemispheres of the giant asteroid Vesta, updated with pictures obtained during Dawn's last look back. Around the time of Dawn's departure from Vesta](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2A5YMHJ/nasas-dawn-mission-topography-of-the-northern-and-southern-hemispheres-of-the-giant-asteroid-vesta-updated-with-pictures-obtained-during-dawns-last-look-back-around-the-time-of-dawns-departure-from-vesta-in-the-late-summer-of-2012-dawn-was-beginning-to-creep-over-the-high-northern-latitudes-which-were-dark-when-dawn-arrived-in-the-summer-of-2011-the-three-craters-that-make-up-dawns-snowman-feature-can-be-seen-at-the-top-of-the-northern-hemisphere-map-on-the-left-a-mountain-more-than-twice-the-height-of-mount-everest-can-be-seen-near-the-center-2A5YMHJ.jpg)