A Part of Vesta’s Shadowed Northern Hemisphere

A Part of Vesta's Shadowed Northern Hemisphere
June 11, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA15795
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a very shadowed region in Vesta's northern hemisphere. Roughly the upper one third of asteroid Vesta's northern hemisphere is currently in shadow.