{"id":6043,"date":"2012-06-10T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T04:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2012-06-15T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T06:23:18","slug":"magnificent-vesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/technology\/magnificent-vesta\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent Vesta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video from NASA shows Vesta&#8217;s true colours. Vesta, according to data gathered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/mission\/goal_index.asp\">Dawn mission<\/a>, used to be an ancient planet; had it formed nearer to the Sun, it might have been a rocky planet such as Venus.<\/p>\n<p>Vesta was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on March 1807. It is considered the second largest asteroid of the asteroid belt, and revolves around the Sun once in 3.63 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn captured these images in September and October 2011. The colour enhancement shows the different elements that can be found on Vesta&#8217;s surface \u2014 green, for example, highlights the amount of iron. The spacecraft&#8217;s next mission is Ceres, the largest known asteroid in the Solar System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video from NASA shows Vesta&#8217;s true colours. Vesta, according to data gathered by the Dawn mission, used to be an ancient planet; had it formed nearer to the Sun, it might&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,10],"tags":[371,369,155,370],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space","category-technology","category-video","tag-asteroid","tag-ceres","tag-space-2","tag-vesta"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6103,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/6103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}