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July 15, 2011 The Dawn spacecraft captured this image of the asteroid Vesta from a distance of just 26,000 miles (41,000 km) on July 9. Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on the night of July 15, at an altitude of less than 10,000 miles. It will spend about one year studying the large, rocky body before proceeding to a second destination: Ceres, the largest asteroid. [NASA/JPL/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA]
