On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...
Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear ... But on some worlds, including the giant asteroid Vesta that NASA's Dawn mission explored, the ...
Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...
Asteroids are exposed to solar ... the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. ... [+] Most of them are larger than 100 kilometres, with the two biggest asteroids being Ceres and Vesta ...
The next largest asteroids in the solar system are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter. All three also lie within the asteroid belt. Every other asteroid ...