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Around Oppia Crater

Around Oppia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15663
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: May 10, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn mission shows a 3-D, colorized rendering of Oppia Crater near the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta. Oppia is about 21 miles (34 kilometers) across.

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