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Geological Map of Vesta

Geological Map of Vesta
Photojournal: PIA18788
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Published: November 17, 2014

This high-resolution geological map of Vesta is derived from NASA's Dawn spacecraft data.

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