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Detail of Urvara Crater's Central Ridge

Detail of Urvara Crater's Central Ridge
Photojournal: PIA22627
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 31, 2018

This image showing detail of Urvara Crater's central ridge on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 6, 2018 from an altitude of about 72 miles (116 kilometers).

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