Dark Materials at the Snowman

Dark Materials at the Snowman
March 21, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/LPI/ASU
PIA NumberPIA15492
Language
  • english

This mosaic from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows dark material near a series of craters known as the 'snowman' on asteroid Vesta. That ejected material is a complex mixture of components.