Dawn Spacecraft mosaic flyover of Asteroid Vesta

This mosaic is representative of the full data set taken by the Dawn Spacecraft’s mission to Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. This video was released just 5 days before Dawn is scheduled to depart for its journey to Ceres, the largest member and the only Dwarf Planet in the asteroid belt. The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, which is a division of the California Institute of Technology, for NASA’s