This image of asteroid Vesta from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows a relatively smooth area of Vesta surface. This region is smooth because it is mostly covered by fine-grained debris, known as regolith.
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Title: Surface Covered by Regolith and Fresh Young Impacts
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Date Created: 2012-04-10
Rights: JPL
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