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A Dark Band on Vesta

A Dark Band on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14690
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 3, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of a dark band on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 19, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

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