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HAMO and LAMO Images of Drusilla Crater

HAMO and LAMO Images of Drusilla Crater
Photojournal: PIA16045
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 15, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Numisia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere. fine-scale structure of the slumping-related features on Drusilla's sloping sides.

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