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Dark Material in the Ejecta of a Small Crater

Dark Material in the Ejecta of a Small Crater
Photojournal: PIA15547
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 5, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, located in asteroid Vesta's Urbinia quadrangle in the Vestan southern hemisphere, shows a small crater with ejecta made of dark material.

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