A giant mountain, three times taller than Earth's highest peak, graces the southern polar region of Vesta.

A giant mountain, three times taller than Earth's highest peak, graces the southern polar region of Vesta, an asteroid that's the target of a close-up study by NASA's Dawn science probe.Dawn went into orbit around Vesta, a large asteroid in the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Launched in September 2007, Dawn successfully established orbit at Vesta the morning of July 17, 2011. It will spend the next ten months studying the large protoplanet before moving off toward the even larger asteroid Ceres. Dawn will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit two separate worlds in our solar system.

The mountain is about 3 times bigger than our own Mount Everest and over 2 times bigger as Mauna Kea, a volcano in Hawaii just like Olympus Mons, a mountain found on Mars. I find it really amazing thatour fellow people, astronomers, or people working for NASA or some other agencies/organizations are working on extra-terrestrial stuffs or some unknown things found on space or the universe and beyond it. Who knows? Maybe in the near future it'll happen. It'll really take some time for us to learn more about what's outside the Earth and beyond. but I'm really thankful that we now have powerful resources that could possibly let us learn and know how or world exists, or what's out there waiting for us to discover it. being an astronomer or an astronaut and for instance, is really a great opportunity to discover new things that revolve around us, but I guess that there are really a lot of great risks too, considering their lives.

" Mount Olympus "
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" Mauna Kea  telescopes "

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" Mount Everest from base camp one "

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So, why not try to check some of these space and astronomy stuffs out? I'm absolutely sure that it will be a very good experience, it's very educational and fun considering you, are going to discover more things about what's out there as you go on through with it. Just like Buzz Light Year said, " To infinity and beyond! ."