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Impressive Mountain Tops on Vesta

Impressive Mountain Tops on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14714
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 16, 2011

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft is of the south pole region of the asteroid Vesta, a mountain is rising approximately 9 miles (15 kilometers) above the floor of a crater.

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