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Bright Crater on Ceres

Bright Crater on Ceres
Photojournal: PIA22641
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 31, 2018
This image of a bright crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 17, 2018 from an altitude of about 25 miles (41 kilometers).

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