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Escarpment on Vesta

Escarpment on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA15790
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 5, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an escarpment located in asteroid Vesta's near Rheasilvia quadrangle, near Vesta's south pole.

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