
These mosaic images from NASA Dawn mission show how dark, carbon-rich materials tend to speckle the rims of smaller craters or their immediate surroundings on the giant asteroid Vesta; Numisia Crater is shown at left.
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NASA ID
PIA16630
Date Created
January 3, 2013
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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