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HAMO and LAMO Images of Sossia Crater

HAMO and LAMO Images of Sossia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15870
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 30, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Urbinia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere; many small boulders are visible on the right side of Sossia crater.

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