Contrast-Enhanced Image of Bellicia Crater
Photojournal: PIA17477
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF
Published: November 6, 2013

In this contrast-enhanced infrared image of Bellicia Crater on the giant asteroid Vesta, scientists from NASA's Dawn mission can see signs of the mineral olivine. Olivine was not expected to be found at Bellicia.

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