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Limb View of Ceres

Limb View of Ceres
Photojournal: PIA22522
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 13, 2018

This image of Ceres' limb was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 30, 2018 from an altitude of about 280 miles (450 kilometers).

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