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Dark Patches and Stripes on Crater Walls

Dark Patches and Stripes on Crater Walls
Photojournal: PIA14693
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 6, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of dark patches and stripes on crater walls on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 18, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

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