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Landslides Along Occator Crater's Rim

Landslides Along Occator Crater's Rim
Photojournal: PIA22526
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 13, 2018

This image of landslides along Ceres' Occator Crater's eastern rim was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 9, 2018 from an altitude of about 27 miles (44 kilometers).

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