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Dark Areas in Cratered Terrain on Vesta

Dark Areas in Cratered Terrain on Vesta

Photojournal: PIA14953

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: October 14, 2011

In this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, a number of small dark areas, mostly clustered in the center and left of the image, are visible in asteroid Vesta's cratered landscape. A lot of these dark patches are small impact craters.

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