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Brightness and Topography Images of a Dark Hill

Brightness and Topography Images of a Dark Hill
Photojournal: PIA15385
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 21, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show the brightness/darkness of asteroid Vesta's surface. These images are located in Vesta's Marcia quadrangle.

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