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Battered Crater Rim on Ceres

Battered Crater Rim on Ceres
Photojournal: PIA22531
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 13, 2018

This image of a battered crater rim on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 10, 2018 from an altitude of about 25 miles (40 kilometers).

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