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Occator Crater's Eastern Rim

Occator Crater's Eastern Rim
Photojournal: PIA22524
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 13, 2018

This image of Ceres' Occator Crater's eastern rim was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 9, 2018 from an altitude of about 30 miles (48 kilometers).

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