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Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region

Mountains Rising Over Vesta's Equatorial Region
Photojournal: PIA14791
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 28, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on Aug. 26, 2011 at a distance of 1,700 miles (2,740 kilometers). The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

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