Ceres Persistent Shadow (Animation)

Ceres Persistent Shadow (Animation)
December 15, 2016
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA21082
Language
  • english

This frame from an animation from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a crater in the northern polar region of Ceres that is partly in shadow year-round, where bright water ice deposits have been observed in several craters.