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Bellicia Crater, in Visible Light

Bellicia Crater, in Visible Light
Photojournal: PIA17478
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 6, 2013

This image from NASA's Dawn mission shows a crater in the northern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta called Bellicia.

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