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Vibidia Crater

Vibidia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15455
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 12, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is centered on asteroid Vesta's Vibidia crater. There is a distinctive distribution of bright and dark material around Vibidia crater.

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