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Rheasilvia /ˌriːəˈsɪlviə/ is the
largest impact crater on the
asteroid Vesta. It is 505 km (314 mi) in diameter,
which is 90% the
diameter of
Vesta itself...
- 500-kilometre (311 mi)-wide
Rheasilvia,
centered near the
south pole; and the 400 km (249 mi) wide Veneneia. The
Rheasilvia impact basin is
younger and...
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Olympus Mons on Mars with an
altitude of 21.9 to 26 km. The
central peak of
Rheasilvia on the
asteroid Vesta is also a
candidate to be the tallest, with an estimated...
- volcano, its
tallest planetary mountain, and is
approximately tied with
Rheasilvia on
Vesta as the
tallest mountain currently discovered in the
Solar System...
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Olympus Mons, the
tallest mountain on any
planet in the
Solar System Rheasilvia crater's
central peak, the
tallest mountain in the
Solar System Peaks...
- the
Solar System; the only
known mountain which might be
taller is the
Rheasilvia peak on the
asteroid Vesta, at 20–25 km (12–16 mi). The
dichotomy of Martian...
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Rheasilvia and
Veneneia are 95% and 75% of the mean
diameter of Vesta, 529 km. However...
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minerals such as olivine.
Aside from the
large crater at its
southern pole,
Rheasilvia,
Vesta also has an
ellipsoidal shape.
Vesta is the
parent body of the...
- However, it is
overlain and
partially obliterated by the even
larger Rheasilvia. It was
discovered by the Dawn
spacecraft in 2011. It is
named after Venēneia...
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composition than Ceres's. Its
surface is
marked by two
giant craters:
Rheasilvia and Veneneia.
Pallas (2.15–2.57 AU) is the third-largest
object in the...