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Impact craters on asteroids

  • Veneneia (crater)The Dawn spacecraft arrived at asteroid 4 Vesta in July 2011. It sent back images that revealed a massive scar on the surface.
  • RheasilviaHubble Space Telescope images from 1997 first revealed a massive scar on the asteroid Vesta. Astronomers saw a dark, circular depression covering most of the…