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Drusilla Crater

Drusilla Crater

Photojournal: PIA15593

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: April 26, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Drusilla crater, which is the irregularly shaped crater offset from the center of the image.

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