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Aquilia Crater

Aquilia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15590
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 23, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Aquilia crater located in Pinaria quadrangle, in Vesta's southern hemisphere. The especially degraded bottom rim was probably formed by debris slumping into the crater.

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