Contrast-Enhanced Image of Bellicia Crater

Contrast-Enhanced Image of Bellicia Crater
November 6, 2013
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF
PIA NumberPIA17477
Language
  • english

In this contrast-enhanced infrared image of Bellicia Crater on the giant asteroid Vesta, scientists from NASA's Dawn mission can see signs of the mineral olivine. Olivine was not expected to be found at Bellicia.