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Bright Spots in Small Crater on Ceres

Bright Spots in Small Crater on Ceres
Photojournal: PIA22635
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 31, 2018

This image of bright spots in a small crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 1, 2018 from an altitude of about 179 miles (288 kilometers).

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