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Vinalia Faculae Detail

Vinalia Faculae Detail
Photojournal: PIA22626
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 31, 2018

This image of Vinalia Faculae on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 6, 2018 from an altitude of about 36 miles (58 kilometers).

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