Vesta’s Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta

Vesta's Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta
November 23, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA15121
Language
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is dominated by a double crater which may have been formed by the simultaneous impact of a binary asteroid. Binary asteroids are asteroids that orbit their mutual center of mass.