Rocks from Vesta — Part 1: Eucrites

Rocks from Vesta -- Part 1: Eucrites
December 2, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/Hap McSween (University of Tennessee), and Andrew Beck and Tim McCoy (Smithsonian Institution)
PIA NumberPIA15136
Language
  • english

These images are of HED (howardite, eucrite and diogenite) meteorites, a large group of meteorites believed to originate from asteroid Vesta, a hypothesis that is consistent with current Dawn observations.