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Oppia Region, Three Ways

Oppia Region, Three Ways
Photojournal: PIA15670
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/INAF
Published: May 10, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn mission shows three colorized views of the Oppia region in the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta.

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