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Steep Slope on Vesta

Steep Slope on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14700
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 13, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of terrestrial mountains on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on Aug. 26, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

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