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Dark Hill
Photojournal: PIA14683
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: August 27, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the surface of asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on August 12, 2011. This image was taken through the framing camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

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