Feralia Planitia
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Feralia Planitia (green and blue, center), an old, degraded crater near Vesta's equator. It is 270 km across and predates Rheasilvia (green at bottom).
Feralia Planitia (/fəˈreɪliə
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Feralia Planitia (green, top) is large enough to be visible from Earth, here as seen in an model of Vesta constructed from Hubble Space Telescope images taken in May 1996. The much larger crater at bottom is Veneneia plus Rheasilvia
References
- ↑ Garry et al. (2012), "Geologic Mapping of Av-10 Oppia Quadrangle of Asteroid 4 Vesta", Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 14, EGU2012-5711-1
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