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Fabia Crater

Fabia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15596
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 1, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta's Fabia crater, roughly 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) in diameter with a large area of bright material originating from its top right rim and slumping towards its center.

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