Crater Chains on Regolith
May 31, 2012
| Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA |
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| PIA Number | PIA15787 |
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This image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows chains of craters on an undulating surface probably formed of fine-grained debris, called regolith, which was ejected from large impact craters as they formed nearby.