Truly amazing pictures of asteroid Dawn

 (CNN) -- The Dawn spacecraft mission could answer some of the big questions about the Big Bang, NASA scientists said Monday as they released the latest images from the mission.

Carrying innovative new instrumentation from the Italian and German space agencies, Dawn is providing unprecedented images of the asteroid Vesta, a roughly 4.65 billion-year-old asteroid with twice the surface area of California.

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