Dark Materials at the Snowman
Photojournal: PIA15492
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/LPI/ASU
Published: March 21, 2012

This mosaic from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows dark material near a series of craters known as the 'snowman' on asteroid Vesta. That ejected material is a complex mixture of components.

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