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Topography of Vesta's Equatorial Region III

Topography of Vesta's Equatorial Region III
Photojournal: PIA15043
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 9, 2011

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show part of asteroid Vesta's equatorial region, which contains impact craters and troughs (linear depressions).

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