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Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Aelia Crater

Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Aelia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15770
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 23, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Aelia crater, located in Vesta's Lucaria Tholus quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.

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