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Vesta's Coat of Many Colors

Vesta's Coat of Many Colors
Photojournal: PIA15506
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: June 6, 2012

This image of asteroid Vesta is one of many images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft to create an animation showing the diversity of minerals through color representation.

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