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Equatorial Grooves Imaged at the Limb of Vesta

Equatorial Grooves Imaged at the Limb of Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14686
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 30, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the surface of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 11, 2011. It was taken through the camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

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