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Crater Wall with Sinuous Features

Crater Wall with Sinuous Features
Photojournal: PIA15553
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 13, 2012

This image of asteroid Vesta from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows part of a large crater with a relatively fresh rim located in Vesta's Numisia quadrangle, near the equator.

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