Vesta – May 14, 2007

Hubble observations of Vesta were taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on May 14 and 16, 2007.

About the colours

This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using two different filters. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F439W (B) Red: F673N ([SII])

About the data

This image was created from data from the HST proposal 10799 : L. McFadden and J.Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), M. Sykes (University of Arizona), P. Thomas (Cornell University), C. Russell (University of California, Los Angeles), and J. Parker and E. Young (Southwest Research Institute).

The science team includes: L. McFadden and J.Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (Space Telescope Science Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), J. Parker and E. Young (Southwest Research Institute), and C. Russell and B. Schmidt (University of California, Los Angeles).