{"id":199,"date":"2011-06-13T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:48:21","slug":"video-dawn-spacecraft-captures-view-approaching-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/astronomy\/video-dawn-spacecraft-captures-view-approaching-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] Dawn Spacecraft Captures View Of Approaching Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/giant-asteroid-vesta-full.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/giant-asteroid-vesta.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Giant asteroid Vesta, as captured by the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn June 1st, 2011, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn spacecraft<\/a> captured the images used in the video below as it approached the 330 mile diameter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4_Vesta\" target=\"_blank\">giant asteroid Vesta<\/a>, the second largest object in the asteroid belt (with the largest object being the <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/feature_stories\/ceres_dwarf.asp\" target=\"_blank\">dwarf planet Ceres<\/a>, the other target of Dawn&#8217;s mission):<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-akm.vmixcore.com\/vmixcore\/js?auto_play=0&#038;cc_default_off=1&#038;player_name=uvp&#038;width=512&#038;height=332&#038;player_id=1aa0b90d7d31305a75d7fa03bc403f5a&#038;t=V0wpi6z7FYAOaY-JxYb2j3P77hJMx3QXEb\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>This movie shows surface details beginning to resolve as NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft closes in on the giant asteroid Vesta. The framing camera aboard NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft obtained the images used for this animation on June 1, 2011, from a distance of about 300,000 miles (483,000 kilometers). (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/videogallery\/index.html?media_id=94495851\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Vesta image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/dawn\/multimedia\/pia14121.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}