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Vesta, the second biggest member of the asteroid ... on its surface should have long escaped into space. Yet, close-up images ...

But on some worlds, including the giant asteroid Vesta that NASA’s Dawn mission explored, the surfaces also contain deep channels, or gullies, whose origins are not fully understood. A prime ...