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Light and Shadow

Light and Shadow
February 28, 2012
Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA Number PIA15403
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This image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows an area in Vesta’s northern hemisphere that has been illuminated by the sun. As asteroid Vesta progresses from its winter to its spring the sunlight is creeping further and further northwards.