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Undulating Terrain in Vesta's Southern Hemisphere

Undulating Terrain in Vesta's Southern Hemisphere
Photojournal: PIA15338
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 1, 2012

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows some of the undulating terrain in asteroid Vesta's southern hemisphere.

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