Buena Vista: a 15 kilometre high mountain in Vesta’s south pole
Buena Vista: a 15 kilometre high mountain in Vesta’s south pole
In the centre of a depression several hundred kilometres in diameter, located in the south pole of asteroid Vesta, a mountain is rising approximately 15 kilometres above the base of that depression. This makes the mountain, which measures roughly 200 kilometres in diameter at its base, one of the highest elevations on all known bodies with solid surfaces in the Solar System. The image shows the unnamed mountain in profile against the darkness of space.
The image has been obtained with the Framing Camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from a distance of about 2420 kilometres. The image resolution is about 250 metres per pixel.
