This view in the southern constellation Carina was acquired on December 13,
2007 as part of the characterization tests of the Framing Camera. The
false-color view is a composite of images at 430 nm (violet), 650 nm (red),
and 980 nm (infrared). The cluster of stars in the center is NGC 3532, and
the nebula in the lower right is the Eta Carina Nebula (NGC 3372).
The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by JPL, a division of the
California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate, Washington. The University of California, Los Angeles, is
responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Other scientific partners
include Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz.; Max Planck Institute
for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; DLR Institute for
Planetary Research, Berlin; Italian National Institute for Astrophysics,
Rome; and the Italian Space Agency. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles,
Va., designed and built the Dawn spacecraft.