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Craters and Ejecta in Visible and Infrared Wavelengths

Craters and Ejecta in Visible and Infrared Wavelengths
Photojournal: PIA14976
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF/IASF/IFSI
Published: October 29, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft used its Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer instrument to produce these three different composite images of the same region of asteroid Vesta's surface.

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