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Scantia Crater

Scantia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15651
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 15, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Scantia crater, located in Vesta's Floronia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere.

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