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A Valentine from Vesta

A Valentine from Vesta
Photojournal: PIA15352
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 14, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, is based on a framing camera image that is overlain by a color-coded height representation of topography. This heart-shaped hollow is roughly 10 kilometers (6 miles) across at its widest point.

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