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Xevioso Crater

Xevioso Crater
Photojournal: PIA22515
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 12, 2018

This image of Xevioso Crater was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 16, 2018 from an altitude of about 470 miles (760 kilometers).

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