Features of 4- Vesta (Saturated Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)

Caption NASA:"NASA's Dawn Spacecraft obtained this image of the giant Asteroid 4-Vesta with its framing camera on July, 9, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 26.000 miles (approx. 41.000 Km). 4-Vesta is also considered a "protoplanet" because it is a large body that almost became a planet. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 2,4 miles (about 3,8 Km).

The Dawn mission to 4-Vesta and 1-Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. It is a project of the Discovery Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. UCLA, is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., designed and built the Dawn Spacecraft!".