Simulated Vesta from the South Pole

Simulated Vesta from the South Pole
March 10, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/PSI
PIA NumberPIA13769
Language
  • english

This image shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like from the south pole and incorporates the best data on dimples and bulges Vesta from ground-based telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.