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put on your 3d glasses and let's take a

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look at Vesta this is asteroid Vesta a

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remnant protoplanet from the beginning

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of the solar system it's a very large

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oblate asteroid about five hundred and

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thirty kilometers in diameter and what

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you see here is that it's separated

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north to south by a set of troughs that

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ring the equator this is a very unusual

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feature that we're very interested in

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studying in the north of Vesta there's a

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large set of craters that we call the

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Snowman and this one at the bottom this

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large crater is named marcia it's a

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fairly recent crater that shows evidence

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of deeper material that has been

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excavated to the surface and here we're

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looking at the south polar basin the

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central mound which is one of the

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largest mountains in the solar system

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and about two and a half times the

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height of Mount Everest on the earth

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it's a cratered mound and also shows

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many features where material has slumped

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revealing fresher material underneath

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and here we can see one of those slumps

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and the scarp in the distance this mound

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is very unusual it has many grooves and

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lineation that were very interested in

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studying we're really excited that dawn

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is on its way to its lowest altitude

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mapping orbit where we're going to be