Dawn on Vesta

This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows the sun illuminating the landscape of asteroid Vesta during a Vestan unrise; the sun had a low angle relative to Vesta surface, just as the sun has a low angle in the sky in the morning on Earth.

This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows the sun illuminating the landscape of asteroid Vesta during a Vestan unrise; the sun had a low angle relative to Vesta surface, just as the sun has a low angle in the sky in the morning on Earth.