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Vesta Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA2011-11-23

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This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft is dominated by a double crater which may have been formed by the simultaneous impact of a binary asteroid. Binary asteroids are asteroids that orbit their mutual center of mass.

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  • Title: Vesta Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta
  • Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
  • Date Created: 2011-11-23
  • Rights: JPL
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