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Fresh Crater Inside a Rectangular Crater

Fresh Crater Inside a Rectangular Crater
Photojournal: PIA15490
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 21, 2012

Towards the bottom of image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, slightly offset from the image center, is a small, young, fresh crater within a rectangular, older, heavily eroded crater.

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