Cratered Terrain in Vesta’s Equatorial Region
![Cratered Terrain in Vesta's Equatorial Region](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PIA15337_hires.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
January 31, 2012
Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA |
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PIA Number | PIA15337 |
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows heavily cratered terrain in asteroid Vesta's equatorial region. The craters have a wide range of sizes and many different forms, which include fresh, degraded and barely visible because they are so degraded.