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Blocks of Ejected Material and Small Craters Near a Crater Rim

Blocks of Ejected Material and Small Craters Near a Crater Rim
Photojournal: PIA15516
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 22, 2012

The low sun elevation in this image of NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta enhances small topographic details near the rim of the large crater, part of which is visible in the bottom left of the image.

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