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Vesta's south polar mound

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Vesta's south polar mound NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image -- of a central mound in a large structure at the south pole -- with its framing camera on August 12, 2011.

NASA / JPL / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA

Original image data dated on or about August 12, 2011

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