ESA’s Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of asteroid Lutetia

10 July 2010 Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA’s Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid showing it is most probably a primitive survivor from the violent birth of the Solar System.

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[link to webservices.esa.int]