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Vesta - Surface covered by regolith and fresh young impacts

Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Vesta - Surface covered by regolith and fresh young impacts
Image credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA

Uploader comment: This Dawn framing camera (FC) image of Vesta shows a relatively smooth area of Vesta’s surface. This region is smooth because it is mostly covered by fine-grained debris, known as regolith.


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