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Impact Crater with Unusual Rim

Impact Crater with Unusual Rim
Photojournal: PIA15336
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: January 30, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Caparronia crater on asteroid Vesta, an unusually shaped, irregular rim that is sharp and fresh in some areas and more rounded and degraded in others.

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