Dust-covered Surface with Fresh Small Craters
Photojournal: PIA15404
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 29, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a relatively smooth part of asteroid Vesta's surface. This smooth texture is probably due to the surface being covered in a layer of tiny dust particles.

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