DLR Institute of Planetary Research - 26.04.2012

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26.04.2012 - Drusilla crater

This Dawn framing camera (FC) image of Vesta shows Drusilla crater, which is the irregularly shaped crater offset from the center of the image. The average diameter of Drusilla crater is 21 kilometers (13 miles) but this varies due the wavy and irregular nature of Drusilla’s rim. Drusilla is a reasonably fresh crater, but there is some debris in the base of the crater that are likely due to slumping of material from the rim of the crater. The slumped debris in the center of the crater is similar to those in Caparronia crater, which is located in Vesta’s northern hemisphere. There is a similarly sized but much more degraded crater located just to the top right of Drusilla, which is barely visible in this image.

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