Vesta close-up the machine Dawn

Last July, the crack of dawn probe entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta, the second largest asteroid main asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. To date, Dawn helped create 3-D map more than 80 percent of the surface of Vesta.

The most interesting thing that we found out with the machine Dawn, - is that the news is the core of nickel and iron, such as the core of Mercury, Earth and Mars. 

Vesta may be a tiny planet

Deep melancholy surrounding the asteroid Vesta, may indicate that the message has a complex structure, a characteristic not of asteroids, and to the planets, according to a new study.

Researchers led by Debra Butskovski (Debra Buczkowski) Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, noted that grooves that extend to the surface of Vesta, are no cracks in the form of the letter V, which are usually formed on the surfaces of asteroids in the result their collision with other space objects, and so-called grabens - areas of the cortex, which fell on the level of the rest of the surface tectonic fault lines, so that the form of education closer to the letter U.