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Fracture Network in Occator Crater

Fracture Network in Occator Crater
Photojournal: PIA22643
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 31, 2018

This image of a fracture network in Occator Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 16, 2018 from an altitude of about 47 miles (76 kilometers).

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