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Fractures Across Occator Crater's Floor

Fractures Across Occator Crater's Floor
Photojournal: PIA22637
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 31, 2018

This image of fractures across Occator Crater's floor on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 4, 2018 from an altitude of about 30 miles (48 kilometers).

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