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Nar Sulcus

Nar Suclus
Photojournal: PIA21400
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 30, 2017

This image taken on August 15, 2016, shows the eastern part of a feature called Nar Sulcus in Yalode Crater on dwarf planet Ceres, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

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