Extremely Bright Area

Extremely Bright Area
March 21, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/UMD
PIA NumberPIA15237
Language
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the brightest area seen on asteroid Vesta so far. It shows a crater located inside the rim of the Rheasilvia basin at the south pole of Vesta.