ext_17567 ([identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mmcirvin 2011-07-20 02:55 am (UTC)

...To give a better idea, here's an elevation map from the Hubble telescope:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vesta-Elevation.jpg

The recent closeup pictures are looking right at the lump in the middle of that crater covering the whole southern hemisphere. Since it's a crater on a convex object, it doesn't actually look all that concave.

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