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Divalia Fossa and Rubria and Occia Craters, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images

Divalia Fossa and Rubria and Occia Craters, Apparent Brightness and Topography Images

Photojournal: PIA15844

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: July 11, 2012

These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft are located in asteroid Vesta's Gegania quadrangle, just south of Vesta's equator. Rubria, with dark and bright material is above Divalia Fossa, and Occia, with bright and dark material is below.

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