Ceres and Vesta

These images have been captured with the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope as part of a programme that surveyed 42 of the largest asteroids in our Solar System. They show Ceres and Vesta, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, approximately 940 and 520 kilometres in diameter. These two asteroids are also the two most massive in the sample.

Credit:

 ESO/Vernazza et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS)

About the Image

Id:eso2114b
Type:Collage
Release date:12 October 2021, 14:00
Related releases:eso2114
Size:2118 x 1090 px

About the Object

Name:Ceres, Vesta
Type:Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Asteroid
Category:Solar System

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