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Occator Crater on Ceres' Limb -- Long Exposure

Occator Crater on Ceres' Limb -- Long Exposure
Photojournal: PIA22764
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 26, 2018

This image of Occator Crater on Ceres limb -- long exposure -- was obtained by NASAs Dawn spacecraft on August 14, 2018 from an altitude of about 1149 miles (1849 kilometers).

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