This image of asteroid Vesta from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows an old, very degraded crater that is almost completely filled with regolith. Regolith is the fine-grained material that covers most of Vesta surface.
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Title: An Old Crater Almost Completely Filled with Regolith
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Date Created: 2012-04-09
Rights: JPL
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