+ - Asteroid Vesta's mountain 3x larger than Mt Everes-> 1
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jamstar7 writes "A new image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as Mt. Everest, in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta.
The peak of Vesta’s south pole mountain, seen in the center of the image, rises about 13 miles above the average height of the surrounding terrain.
On the right side of the image is a huge cliff-like slope — the Dawn team’s scientists believe features around its base are probably the result of landslides."
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The peak of Vesta’s south pole mountain, seen in the center of the image, rises about 13 miles above the average height of the surrounding terrain.
On the right side of the image is a huge cliff-like slope — the Dawn team’s scientists believe features around its base are probably the result of landslides."
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This just in (Score:2)