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Rheasilvia Basin

A mountain rivaling Olympus Mons, at the south pole of an asteroid.

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Dawn framing camera stereo DTM (HAMO), 93 m/px (shown at 244 m/px) · product Vesta_Dawn_HAMO_DTM_DLR_Global_48ppd · NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/DLR/IDA · USGS Astrogeology. Scene 500 × 500 km, elevation -22,402 m to 16,091 m against the 285 × 229 km Vesta reference ellipsoid. Surface color: Dawn framing camera HAMO mosaic (60 m/px, grayscale), NASA/JPL/UCLA/DLR/IDA. A pole-centered scene on a body just 500 km across: heights are referenced to Vesta's ellipsoid so its squashed shape doesn't drown the basin, and ground this curved is necessarily flattened by any map.

No generative models anywhere on this page — the pipeline crops, resamples down, and normalizes; it never invents a bump the instrument didn’t measure.

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