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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2011-07-18 06:29 pm

Vesta closer up

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-213

This is the inside of the big south-polar crater. Now I can't tell whether the grooves that seemed to be visible in lower-resolution photos were just a trick of the light.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
...Phil Plait points out that they look more like scarps now.