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Impact Crater with Smoothed Rim

Impact Crater with Smoothed Rim

This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows hows a large impact crater whose rim is rather smoothed and degraded. There are many smaller, younger craters surrounding and inside of this crater and these have sharper, fresher rims.

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March 1, 2012

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JPL

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