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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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