Most Spectacularly Preserved Pitted Terrain on Vesta

Most Spectacularly Preserved Pitted Terrain on Vesta
September 20, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/JHUAPL
PIA NumberPIA16182
Language
  • english

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