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Bright Material at Numisia Crater

Bright Material at Numisia Crater
Photojournal: PIA15234
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/UMD
Published: March 21, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the crater Numisia, located just south of the equator in the Numisia quadrangle on asteroid Vesta.

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