Cornelia is the Pits

Cornelia is the Pits
September 20, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/JHUAPL
PIA NumberPIA16183
Language
  • english

This perspective view of Cornelia crater on the giant asteroid Vesta shows an example of 'pitted terrain,' an unexpected discovery in data returned by NASA's Dawn mission.