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4-Vesta: Full Rotation (a GIF-Movie by NASA / JPL / UCLA / MPS / DLR / PSI)
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As Dawn continued its approach to 4-Vesta on June 20, 2011, it occasionally quit thrusting and turned to the spinning Asteroid to perform a "rotation characterization," seeing all longitudes as 4-Vesta rotated beneath the Spacecraft.
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