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Canuleia, Up Close

Canuleia, Up Close
Photojournal: PIA16176
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/PSI/Brown
Published: October 31, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a close up of part of the rim around the crater Canuleia on the giant asteroid Vesta. Canuleia, about 6 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, is the large crater at the bottom-left of this image.

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