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Cratered Terrain

Cratered Terrain
June 7, 2012
Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA Number PIA15793
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This image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a part of the heavily cratered terrain in asteroid Vesta’s northern hemisphere. Some of the craters have fresh, sharp rims, which suggests that they are reasonably young.