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Mountains and Bright and Dark Material on Vesta

Mountains and Bright and Dark Material on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14793
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 29, 2011

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.

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