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Hakumyi Crater

Hakumyi Crater
Photojournal: PIA21413
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 6, 2017

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Hakumyi Crater on Ceres, visible left of center. Evidence for organics was also found at the 4-mile (6.5 kilometer) wide fresh crater on the southern rim of Hakumyi.

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