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False-Color Image of Vesta's Equatorial Region

False-Color Image of Vesta's Equatorial Region
Photojournal: PIA14677
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 21, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this false-color image of asteroid Vesta's equatorial region with its framing camera on July 25, 2011.

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