Anaglyph Image of the Mountain-Central Complex in Vesta’s South Polar Region

Anaglyph Image of the Mountain-Central Complex in Vesta's South Polar Region
October 11, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA14891
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The broad morphology of asteroid Vesta's mountain/central complex is clear in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft; it is a roughly circular topographic mound, which is approximately 200km in diameter and has approximately 20km of relief from its base.