Vesta’s Surface at High Resolution: Dominated by Impact Craters
February 13, 2012
| Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA |
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| PIA Number | PIA15351 |
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a large number of craters, formed by collisions into the surface of asteroid Vesta. The relatively large circular depressions in this image are older, heavily degraded impact craters.