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An unusual hill on asteroid Vesta
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PS
This animation created by David O'Brien, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz., and taken with NASA's Dawn framing camera instrument, shows an image layered on a the digital terrain model of an unusual hill containing a dark-rayed impact crater and nearby dark deposit.
- Full Image and Caption
- Dark Hill on Asteroid Vesta Movie (QT) 14MB
  Asteroid Vesta 3-D image
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
This 3-D video incorporates images from the framing camera instrument aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft from July to August 2011.
- Full Image Advisory
- 3-D Video (QT) 17.7MB
    Anaglyph image of Vesta's equator put together from two clear filter images, taken on July 24, 2011
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
This false-color video of the giant asteroid Vesta was created from images taken by the framing camera aboard the Dawn spacecraft.
- Vesta false color shape model animation (QT) 3MB
  NASA's Journey Above Vesta Video
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
New views of the second most massive object in the asteroid belt.
- NASA's Journey Above Vesta Movie (QT) 24MB
Survey Ground Camera Lit
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Ground-track of Dawn Spacecraft During Survey phase
- Full Caption and Animation
    Survey Orbit Earth Direct Li
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Dawn's Survey Orbit as Seen from the Earth
- Full Caption and Animation
    Survey Orbit Lit by Direct Sun
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Dawn's Survey Orbit as Seen from the Sun
- Full Caption and Animation
    HAMO Survey orbit
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Ground-track of Dawn Spacecraft During HAMO Phase
- Full Caption and Animation
HAMO Orbit Lit by Direct Sun
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Dawn's HAMO Orbit as Seen from the Earth
- Full Caption and Animation
    HAMO Orbit Lit by Direct Sun
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Dawn's HAMO Orbit as Seen from the Sun
- Full Caption and Animation
  LAMO Ground Camera Lit
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Ground-track of Dawn Spacecraft During LAMO Phase
- Full Caption and Animation
    LAMO_Orbit_EarthDir_Lit
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Animation of Dawn's LAMO Orbit as Seen from the Earth
- Full Caption and Animation
LAMO Orbit Lit by Direct Sun
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
-Animation of Dawn's LAMO Orbit as seen from the Sun
- Full Caption and Animation
    Asteroid Vesta
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
  Animation showing the Dawn spacecraft flying above Vesta
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
  Animation showing the Dawn spacecraft leaving asteroid Vesta and arriving at dwarf planet Ceres
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Asteroid Vesta
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
UCLA/MPS/DLR/PSI and NASA/ESA/STScI/UMd
  Star Trek Inspires Chief Dawn Engineer
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
  Asteroid Vesta
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
  Star Trek Inspires Chief Dawn Engineer
Dawn Movie     Dawn Lift Off Movie     Launch of Dawn on Delta II rocket
    Dawn Animations
Animation of Vesta
Credit: Hubble Space Telescope
- Animation of Vesta (QT) 2MB
  Image of Vesta
Credit: Hubble Space Telescope
    Ceres and Vesta
Video of Framing Camera's view of Vega on December 3-4, 2007
Credit: NASA/JPL/MPS/DLR/IDA
- View of Vega (AVI) 18KB
- View of Vega (QT) 16KB
    Animated Rotation of Vesta
Credit: Starlight Animations
Interviews/Podcasts from Dawn Scientists
Chris Russell
Interview with Dawn Principal Investigator, Chris Russell, 3/15/08. Courtesy of ABC Science Show
- Listen to Broadcast
Runtime: 7:12 min. (QT)
    Tom McCord
WNYC Public Radio interview with Tom McCord and Tom Prettyman, 1/31/08
- Listen to Broadcast
Runtime: 18:40 min.
    Tom Prettyman
KKOB (Hi-Tech New Mexico) Interview with Tom Prettyman, 10/21/07
    Listen to JPL's Salute to Science Fiction with Keyur Patel & Carol Raymond
JPL's Salute to Science Fiction with Keyur Patel & Carol Raymond
- IT Came From Vesta Podcast Runtime: 4:49 min. (MP3)
Mark Sykes
Science Friday podcast with Mark Sykes on planet definition controversy, 3/2/08
- What's A Planet, Anyway? Runtime: 58 min. (MP3)
    Dr. Lucy McFadden
Dr. Lucy McFadden's search for meteorites in Antarctica, 8/08/08
    Great Planet Debate
Great Planet Debate panel discussions. 9/14-16, 2008, Johns Hopkins University
    Marc Rayman
Learn what Dawn scientist Marc Rayman finds the most intriguing about the Dawn mission.
Carol Polanskey
Learn how Dawn Science Ops System Engineer Carol Polanskey balances engineering with science, and her advice to young scientists.
    Stacy Weinstein-Weiss
Learn what Dawn's Vesta development manger, Stacy Weinstein-Weiss, finds most intriguing about the protoplanet Vesta, and how she came to work for NASA.
         
Podcasts From 2007 Dawn Educator Launch Conference
Cratering Lecture
Cratering Lecture
    What Makes a Planet? Lecture
What Makes a Planet? Lecture
    Instrumentation Lecture
Instrumentation Lecture
    Clickworks Lecture
Clickworks Lecture