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Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Severina Crater

Apparent Brightness and Topography Images of Severina Crater
Photojournal: PIA15486
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 15, 2012

These images are located in Vesta's Rheasilvia quadrangle, near asteroid Vesta's south pole. NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the apparent brightness image with its framing camera on Oct. 22, 2011.

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