... 19.07.2011 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS, DLR, IDA Explanation: What does the surface of asteroid Vesta look like? ... Over the past few weeks, however, the robotic Dawn spacecraft became the first spacecraft ever to approach Vesta . ... After a year of studying Vesta , Dawn is scheduled to leave orbit and, in 2015, approach the only asteroid -belt object that is larger: Ceres . ... Publications with keywords: asteroid - Vesta - spacecraft . ... Approaching Asteroid Ceres ....