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Mantled Surface of Vesta with Secondaries

Mantled Surface of Vesta with Secondaries
Photojournal: PIA15047
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 13, 2011

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a part of the surface of asteroid Vesta, which is mantled (covered) by an ejecta blanket, evident as smoothly textured surface visible across the image.

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