NASA: Vesta may have had flowing lava and volcanoes

A video from NASA’s ScienceCast explaining what the Dawn mission probe has discovered while orbiting the distant asteroid — it may be the smallest terrestrial “planet” discovered, given that it might well have had flowing lava and volcanoes. For a mundane hunk of rock very far away, it sure had a surprisingly interesting past.

I love this stuff.

NASA: Vesta may have had flowing lava and volcanoes
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