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Ejecta-covered Surface

Ejecta-covered Surface
Photojournal: PIA15554
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 16, 2012

This image of asteroid Vesta from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a region of the surface that is rather smooth in appearance which is located in Vesta's Marcia quadrangle, near the Vestan equator.

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