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Rubria and Occia Craters

Rubria and Occia Craters
Photojournal: PIA15647
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 9, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Rubria and Occia craters. Both Rubria and Occia contain dark and bright material and both have reasonably sharp, well-defined and regularly shaped rims.

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