Crater on Asteroid Vesta
esahubble_opo9727d September 4th, 1997
Credit: Ben Zellner (Georgia Southern University), Peter Thomas (Cornell University), NASA/ESA
A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Vesta, taken in May 1996 when the asteroid was 110 million miles (about 177 million kilometres) from Earth. The asymmetry of the asteroid and 'nub' and the south pole is suggestive that it suffered a large impact event. The image was digitally restored to yield an effective scale of six miles per pixel (picture element.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9727d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9727d
- Subject Category
- A.2.3
- Subject Name
- Vesta
- Credits
- Ben Zellner (Georgia Southern University), Peter Thomas (Cornell University), NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-09-04T22:00:00
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- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9727d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9727d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9727d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:48:41+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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