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Tuccia and Eusebia Craters

Tuccia and Eusebia Craters
Photojournal: PIA15595
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 30, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Eusebia crater on the right. The smaller crater, offset from the center of the image, with a smaller crater on its rim is Tuccia crater.

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