Ray Craters in Vesta’s South Polar Region
![Ray Craters in Vesta's South Polar Region](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PIA14828_hires.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
October 8, 2011
Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA |
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PIA Number | PIA14828 |
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows many fresh craters, several with bright ejecta rays, which were formed by impacts into the floor of asteroid Vesta's south polar basin.