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PIA14699: Anaglyph of Craters in the South Polar Region
 Target Name:  Vesta
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Dawn
 Spacecraft:  Dawn
 Instrument:  Framing Camera
 Product Size:  1260 x 1400 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
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 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA14699.tif (5.298 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA14699.jpg (124.5 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This 3-D image shows the topography of craters and grooves of Vesta's south polar region obtained by the framing camera instrument aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Aug. 23 and 28, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel. Use red-green (or red-blue) glasses to view in 3-D (left eye: red; right eye: green [or blue]).

More information about Dawn is online at http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Image Addition Date:
2011-09-12