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Occator Crater Wall

Occator Crater Wall

Photojournal: PIA22633

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: July 31, 2018

This image of a wall on Occator Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 5, 2018 from an altitude of about 26 miles (43 kilometers).

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