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Topography of Vesta's Equatorial Region II

Topography of Vesta's Equatorial Region II
Photojournal: PIA15042
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 8, 2011

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show part of asteroid Vesta's equatorial region, which contains many different sizes of impact craters.

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