Craters Within Thick Ejecta in the Rheasilvia Basin

Craters Within Thick Ejecta in the Rheasilvia Basin
January 17, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA15300
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a large crater with several smaller craters at the edge on the giant asteroid Vesta. Rough texture in the crater wall at far right may be the underlying bedrock.