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Justina Crater

Justina Crater
Photojournal: PIA15597
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 2, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta Fabia shows Justina crater, located in Vesta's Urbinia quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere.

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