Mountains and Bright and Dark Material on Vesta

Mountains and Bright and Dark Material on Vesta
September 29, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA14793
Language
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows dark colored mountains (top of the image) in the northern region of asteroid Vesta. The origin of such mountains is currently being investigated.