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Ejecta Blanket on Vesta

Ejecta Blanket on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14893
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: October 13, 2011

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an ejecta blanket mantling the surface and obscuring older caters. The bright crater rim, seen in the middle right edge, is one of a group of craters which are the source of this ejecta blanket.

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