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Occia Crater

Occia Crater
May 10, 2012
Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA Number PIA15648
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This image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Occia crater, located in Vesta’s Gegania quadrangle, in Vesta’s southern hemisphere. A distinctive butterfly pattern is seen consisting of two separate lobes of ejecta on the opposite sides.