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Clues to Ceres' Internal Structure

Clues to Ceres' Internal Structure
Photojournal: PIA22083
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: October 26, 2017

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took these images of dwarf planet Ceres. The map overlaid on the right gives scientists hints about Ceres' internal structure.

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