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Night and Day Boundary on Vesta

Night and Day Boundary on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14776
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 20, 2011

This detail of NASA's Dawn spacecraft's framing camera image shows low sun angles and large shadows on asteroid Vesta.

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