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HAMO and LAMO Images of Claudia Crater

HAMO and LAMO Images of Claudia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15872
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 4, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Oppia quadrangle, just south of Vesta's equator; Claudia was chosen to anchor the coordinate system for Vesta used in the scientific investigations of the Dawn team.

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