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Fresh Crater with Bright and Dark Rays

Fresh Crater with Bright and Dark Rays
Photojournal: PIA15045
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 11, 2011
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a small, young, fresh crater on asteroid Vesta with bright and dark rays extending from it.

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