Vesta’s Snowman Impersonation

Interesting trio of craters on Vesta. Click for larger. Image Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA

The Dawn spacecraft took this image of a trio of craters on Vesta that vaguely resembles a snowman.  There is a large version accessible on the Dawn webpage.

Given the low gravity of Vesta, probably in the range of three percent of Earth’s,  I’m trying to decide from what direction the impacting bodies hit.  I’m thinking top to bottom in the image.

Did everybody see the spectacular time-lapse video of the Earth from the ISS?  Check it out on Robs page – truly amazing!.

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