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Rubria Crater, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images

Rubria Crater, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images
Photojournal: PIA15845
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 12, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Gegania quadrangle, just south of Vesta's equator. Rubria is the crater with dark and bright material above Divalia Fossa and Occia is the crater with bright and dark material below.

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