Global Mineral Map of Vesta

Global Mineral Map of Vesta
May 10, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/INAF/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA15669
Language
  • english

This colorized map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the distribution of minerals across the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. It was made from spectra -- or data collected in different wavelengths of radiation.