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Features on Vesta's Regolith

Features on Vesta's Regolith
Photojournal: PIA15082
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 17, 2011

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is dominated by bright rayed craters of different sizes. The most prominent bright rayed crater is name Tuccia.

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