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Serena Crater, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images

Serena Crater, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images
Photojournal: PIA15886
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 17, 2012

These apparent brightness and topography images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Sextilia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.

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