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Aelia Crater

Aelia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15588
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 19, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Aelia crater with a larger, more degraded crater to the left. Dark and bright material crops out from Aelia's rim and slumps towards its center extending in rays outside the crater's rim.

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