Vesta asteroid. Computer artwork of the asteroid Vesta (4 Vesta),based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. The asteroid's south pole (lower centre) has been flattened,suggesting that it has experienced a major impact with another object in the past. Vesta orbits the Sun between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter at an average distance of 353 million kilometres (2.36 times the radius of Earth's orbit). It is the second largest asteroid,having a diameter of about 538 kilometres. Under favourable conditions,it is the only asteroid visible to the naked eye | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Butler, Chris |
Taille de l’image : | 6000 px × 4500 px |
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