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Lines of Craters

Lines of Craters

Photojournal: PIA15518

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: March 26, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows is located in asteroid Vesta's Rheasilvia quadrangle, near Vesta's south pole. Severina crater has a fresh, sharp rim and a smaller, presumably younger, crater on its rim.

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