Most Spectacularly Preserved Pitted Terrain on Vesta
September 20, 2012
| Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/JHUAPL |
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| PIA Number | PIA16182 |
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This perspective view of Marcia crater on the giant asteroid Vesta shows the most spectacularly preserved example of 'pitted terrain,' an unexpected discovery in data returned by NASA's Dawn mission.



