Hydrogen Hotspots on Vesta

Hydrogen Hotspots on Vesta
September 20, 2012
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/PSI/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA15679
Language
  • english

This image shows that NASA's Dawn mission detected abundances of hydrogen in a wide swath around the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta. The hydrogen probably exists in the form of hydroxyl or water bound to minerals in Vesta's surface.