THIS picture of Vesta, the second-largest object in the asteroid belt, was taken on July 15th by Dawn, a robotic probe belonging to NASA, America’s space agency, just after the craft had gone into orbit around the asteroid. Dawn will spend a year studying Vesta before firing up her high-tech ion engines and flying on to look at Ceres, the largest denizen of the belt.
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