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Mass Wasting on Steep Slopes

Mass Wasting on Steep Slopes
Photojournal: PIA15381
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 15, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows many highly degraded craters in the top part of the image. These craters are so degraded that their rims are only partially visible.

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