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Love that title, so I “borrowed” it from the Dawn website. This video was made by putting a series of still images from the Dawn spacecraft’s framing camera. The images were taken on July 24, 2011 from a distance of 3,200 miles / 5,200 km.

We are looking at a full rotation of the asteroid which takes about 5 hours to occur.  Those “groove-like” features running in the direction of the rotation are very interesting, hopefully we will hear more about the from the Dawn team.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

As always you can get the very latest on the Dawn website.