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This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows a relatively smooth part of Vesta’s surface. This smooth texture is probably due to the surface being covered in a layer of tiny dust particles.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows an area in Vesta’s northern hemisphere that has been illuminated more by the sun than yesterday’s image of the day.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows a part of Vesta’s northern hemisphere, which is mostly in darkness.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows Cornelia crater, a roughly 15-kilometer-diameter (9-mile-diameter) crater with a sharp, fresh rim.

The left-hand image is a Dawn FC (framing camera) image, which shows the apparent brightness of Vesta’s surface. The right-hand image has a color-coded height representation of the topography overlain onto it.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows Aricia Tholus, the dark hill that was presented in the previous Image of the Day.

The left-hand image is a Dawn FC (framing camera) brightness image, which shows the brightness/ darkness of Vesta’s surface. The right-hand image is based on this brightness image.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows the sun illuminating the landscape of Vesta during a Vestan ‘sunrise’. When this image was obtained the sun had a low angle relative to Vesta’s surface, just as the sun has a low angle in the sky in the morning on Earth.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows impact ejecta deposits dominating Vesta’s landscape. This impact ejecta material was ejected from an impact crater located outside the imaged area.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows two overlapping impact craters. The large crater is roughly 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter and the smaller crater is roughly 6 kilometers (4 miles) in diameter.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows many highly degraded craters in the top part of the image.

This image is based on a Dawn FC (framing camera) image that is overlain by a color-coded height representation of topography.

In this Dawn FC (framing camera) image a large number of craters, formed by collisions into the surface of Vesta, are visible.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows many linear or sinuous grooves crisscrossing the surface of Vesta.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows numerous linear chains and clusters of small craters.

This mosaic shows the location of the data acquired by VIR (visible and infrared spectrometer) during the HAMO (high-altitude mapping orbit) phase of the Dawn mission.

This image shows a Dawn VIR (visible and infrared spectrometer) image, overlain on top of a FC (framing camera) image of the same region.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows the undulating terrain of Vesta’s southern hemisphere, which consists of ridges and depressions.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows part of the ejecta deposit surrounding the ‘snowman’ craters, the largest of which has been named Marcia.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows old cratered terrain located on Vesta’s equator. Many of these craters have very degraded, rounded rims.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows part of the sharp, fresh rim of a large crater in the top part of the image.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows part of the sharp, fresh rim of a large crater in the top part of the image.

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows some of the undulating terrain in Vesta’s southern hemisphere.