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Old and Heavily Cratered Terrain on Vesta

Old and Heavily Cratered Terrain on Vesta
Photojournal: PIA14328
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 16, 2011

NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on August 6, 2011. Old and heavily cratered terrain is shown on Vesta. The framing camera has a resolution about 280 yards (260 meters) per pixel.

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