PIA14701: Craters and Grooves in the South Polar Region
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of craters and grooves in the south polar region on asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on Sept. 3, 2011. The image has a resolution of about 220 meters per pixel.
 Target Name:  Vesta
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Dawn 
 Spacecraft:  Dawn
 Instrument:  Framing Camera 
 Product Size:  1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA14701.tif (1.05 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA14701.jpg (84.28 kB)  

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on Sept. 3, 2011. This image was taken through the camera's clear filter. The image has a resolution of about 220 meters per pixel.

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:
2011-09-14