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Chain of Craters

Chain of Craters
Photojournal: PIA15786
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 30, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows a long chain of craters in the right part of the image, located in Vesta's Caparronia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere.

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