Widely recognized in the Vesta

Released by NASA on July 18, the photo was shot by the spacecraft Dawn at a distance of 15 000 kilometres.NASA

The first close-up image of a rocky world, that reveals a champion cratered surface parallel grooves and ridges jagged. Photo of Vesta was taken by NASA'S Dawn spacecraft that fired in orbit around the second largest asteroid in the main belt in the morning on July 16, EDT.
Among other tasks, Dawn will spend the year helping astronomers accurately measure mass and gravity, the asteroid, look for minimoons and enter the detailed maps with less than 200 kilometres above pockmarked chunk of rock. Scientists seem to Vesta possesses one of the oldest Remaining surfaces of the primordial solar system and hoped that its face 4,5 billion years will provide information on the nowonarodzone of the solar system.
"As the planet's formation took place? What are the major events? "Planetary scientist asks William Bottke Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado asteroids to Bottke likens evidence of crime scene: help the reenactment and contain information that is or is not a planet. "One you're like the splatter of blood or bone fragments and such," says Bottke. "These Guys have little to offer amazing constraints on large processes that have taken place. Are the stuff of outstanding crime and we use it to make what happened. ”
Managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Dawn 2.8 billion kilometers traveled before being intercepted by the West, powered by an ion which they spacecraft forward at a higher speed than other currently available technology.