Vesta Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta
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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NASA ID
PIA15121
Date Created
November 23, 2011
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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