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Dark Material on Hilltops

Dark Material on Hilltops
Photojournal: PIA14694
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 7, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of dark material on hilltops on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 18, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

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