Wednesday, August 03, 2011

The void doesn't care.

Asteroid Vesta Home To 'Snowman' Made Of Craters
- SPACE.com via Yahoo! News

Asteroid Vesta
A new photo of the giant asteroid Vesta snapped by a NASA probe reveals what may be one of the space rock's oddest features: three huge craters linked at the rim to form a cosmic snowman, scientists say. NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which is now in orbit around Vesta, snapped the picture of a set of three craters in the space rock's northern hemisphere on July 24. Mission scientists nicknamed the craters ..

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