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Grooves and Crater Chains on Vesta

Grooves and Crater Chains on Vesta

Photojournal: PIA15046

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: November 12, 2011

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows numerous grooves (linear depressions) and crater chains, especially in the right hand side of the image of asteroid Vesta.

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