Contour Map of Hydrogen on Vesta

Contour Map of Hydrogen on Vesta
September 20, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/PSI/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA16181
Language
  • english

Hydrogen is most abundant in areas with low reflectivity, or albedo, on the giant asteroid Vesta, as shown in this contour map from NASA's Dawn mission.