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Occator on Ceres' Limb

Occator on Ceres' Limb
Photojournal: PIA21078
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 18, 2016

Occator Crater, home of Ceres' intriguing brightest areas, is prominently featured in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

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