This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows a part of the surface of asteroid Vesta, which is mantled covered by an ejecta blanket, evident as smoothly textured surface visible across the image.
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Title: Mantled Surface of Vesta with Secondaries
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Date Created: 2011-11-13
Rights: JPL
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