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Sharp Crater Rim

Sharp Crater Rim

Photojournal: PIA15525

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

Published: April 4, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a sharp, fresh crater rim of a large crater that is only partly in the bottom right corner of this image and is located in Vesta's Numisia quadrangle, near asteroid Vesta's equator.

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