
All the colors of the giant asteroid Vesta
The mission of the Dawn spacecraft, which spent about a year to examine the giant asteroid Vesta, provided an enormous amount of information that are extremely interesting from a scientific point of view. However, Vesta is grayish and studded with craters of various sizes, not the most spectacular sight. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, have changed that reworking the images of Vesta giving them spectacular colors.