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Ray Craters in Vesta's South Polar Region

Ray Craters in Vesta's South Polar Region
Photojournal: PIA14828
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: October 8, 2011

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows many fresh craters, several with bright ejecta rays, which were formed by impacts into the floor of asteroid Vesta's south polar basin.

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