DLR Institute of Planetary Research - 21.02.2012 - Brightness and topography images of a dark hill

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21.02.2012 - Brightness and topography images of a dark hill

The left-hand image is a Dawn FC (framing camera) brightness image, which shows the brightness/ darkness of Vesta’s surface. The right-hand image is based on this brightness image, which has had a color-coded height representation of topography overlain onto it. The topography is calculated from a set of images that were observed from different viewing directions, which allows stereo reconstruction. The various colors correspond to the height of the area. The white and red areas in the center and bottom of the topography image are the highest areas and the blue area in the top of the image is the lowest area. The dark hill shows up clearly as a red, high topography feature in the topography image.

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