Impact crater (IMAGE)

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Impact crater

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Caption: An impact crater created by a hypervelocity impact experiment at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range. The experiment was designed to investigate the effects on impacts on Ceres’ organics. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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