Vesta asteroid. Coloured image of the Vesta asteroid based on Hubble Space Telescope data. The image is colour-coded to show elevation,from 12 kilometres (km) below average (black),through blue,green,yellow and red to 12 km above average (white). The asteroid's south pole (lower centre) has a 456 km-wide impact crater with a central "bull's eye" peak,suggesting that it has experi- enced a major collision with a large object. Vesta orbits the Sun between the orbits of Mars & Jupit- er at an average distance of 353 million km (2.36 times Earth's orbital radius). It is the third largest asteroid,being about 538 km across | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / B.ZELLNER, GSU / STSCI / ESA / NASA |
Taille de l’image : | 4847 px × 3999 px |
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