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A Part of Vesta's Shadowed Northern Hemisphere

A Part of Vesta's Shadowed Northern Hemisphere
Photojournal: PIA15795
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 11, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a very shadowed region in Vesta's northern hemisphere. Roughly the upper one third of asteroid Vesta's northern hemisphere is currently in shadow.

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