Tuesday, October 12, 2010

NASA mission to asteroid gets help from Hubble Space Telescope

NASA mission to asteroid gets help from Hubble Space Telescope: "Scientists have constructed a video from the images that will help improve pointing instructions for Dawn as it is placed in a polar orbit around Vesta. Analyses of Hubble images revealed a pole orientation, or tilt, of approximately four degrees more to the asteroid's east than scientists previously thought."

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