Look at Figure 7.15, the image of the 58 km 23 km asteroid, (243) Ida. Remembering
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Look at Figure 7.15, the image of the 58 km × 23 km asteroid, (243) Ida. Remembering the types of craters that you met in Chapter 4, how would you describe the craters on Ida?
Figure 7.15
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Figure 7.15 Image of main belt S-type asteroid (243) Ida (58 km 23 km), taken by the Galileo spacecraft. The rather jagged shadow line is a consequence of the asteroid being illuminated only from one direction (from the Sun). This causes a great contrast between the sunlit areas and the shadow areas, which look as black as the background space. (NASA)
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