Mountains Rising Over Vesta’s Equatorial Region: Nasa Dawn Mission Image of the Day Gallery - 28 Sept 2011

PASADENA, Calif.-- NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of Vesta with its framing camera on Aug. 26, 2011. This image was taken through the camera's clear filter at a distance of 1,700 miles (2,740 kilometers). The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

More information about Dawn is online at http://www.nasa.gov/dawn.

Image Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA