Dawn nearing Vesta

[Dr Mordrid]

Apparently Dawns ion propulsion got it to this point a tad early.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/dawn_vesta_image_070111.asp

July 7, 2011 - PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 1, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 5.8 miles (9.3 kilometers).