False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact

False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact
September 16, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA14709
Language
  • english

This false-color image obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a crater on the giant asteroid Vesta. The reddish coloring below the crater points to material that was hurled from Vesta's interior during an impact or originated from the impactor itself.