Crater in shadow
Crater in shadow
The image shows parts of the crater wall of a relatively fresh impact crater on the asteroid Vesta. The imaged area is located in the northern hemisphere, which has many such craters. It is one of the first images acquired by the German Framing Camera system on board NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from the Low-Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO). The image data was acquired at 16.7 degrees north, 76.6 degrees east on 13 December 2011, from an altitude of 191 kilometres.
