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Fractures in Occator Crater's Floor

Fractures in Occator Crater's Floor
Photojournal: PIA22628
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 31, 2018

This image of fractures in Occator Crater's floor on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 5, 2018 from an altitude of about 35 miles (57 kilometers).

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