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HAMO and LAMO Images of Scantia Crater

HAMO and LAMO Images of Scantia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15869
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 29, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Floronia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere; small boulders visible inside of Scantia crater.

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