Vesta’s Partly Shadowed Northern Regions

Vesta's Partly Shadowed Northern Regions
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA15788
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a part of asteroid Vesta's surface reasonably far north into the northern hemisphere which appears washed out because it has been stretched to make features visible that would otherwise be too dark to see.