DLR Institute of Planetary Research - 11.11.2011 - Fresh crater with bright and dark rays

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11.11.2011 - Fresh crater with bright and dark rays

This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows a small, young, fresh crater with bright and dark rays extending from it. This crater is located in the center of the image, it is approximately 5km wide and its rays extend for up to 10km. The bright and dark rays also slump into the center of this crater, giving it an impressively mottled appearance. To the left of this crater is a larger, older, more degraded crater into which some of the bright and dark rays appear to be slumping. There is one particularly clear white ray, flanked by two dark rays, which slumps from the edge of the degraded crater to its center, a distance of nearly 10km. Bright and dark material also slumps into another degraded crater in the lower right of the image. But in this case the source of the material seems to be the crater rim rather than a neighboring crater.

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