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HAMO and LAMO Images of Justina Crater

HAMO and LAMO Images of Justina Crater
Photojournal: PIA16047
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 17, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Urbinia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere. The mottled appearance of the slump and small gullies around the fresh rim of the crater.

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