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Unusual craters on Vesta I

Unusual craters on Vesta I
Photojournal: PIA14959
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: October 20, 2011

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows craters of different sizes and shapes in Vesta's southern hemisphere. The freshest craters can be classified as fresh scarp rimmed craters and the less fresh classified as partly degraded subdued rim craters.

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