
A double crater, called a crater doublet, is seen in the bottom right part of this image from NASA Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta. This crater doublet was likely formed by the simultaneous impact of two fragments of a split projectile.
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NASA ID
PIA15517
Date Created
March 23, 2012
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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