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Dawn Navigating Ceres

Dawn Navigating Ceres
Photojournal: PIA21407
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 24, 2017
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017. Ceres appears as a crescent as Dawn is on the night side of the dwarf planet.

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