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Linear and Curvilinear Grooves

Linear and Curvilinear Grooves
Photojournal: PIA15521
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 29, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows many linear and curvilinear grooves running roughly diagonally across asteroid Vesta's Gegania quadrangle.

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