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Unusual Crater Chains and Ridges

Unusual Crater Chains and Ridges
January 11, 2012
Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA Number PIA15296
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a surface with many craters and linear chains of small craters that merge into ridges on the giant asteroid Vesta.