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Eusebia Crater

Eusebia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15594
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 27, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Eusebia crater, which is the large crater in the top right of the image.

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