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Dawn XMO2 Image 4

Dawn XMO2 Image 4
Photojournal: PIA21224
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 10, 2016

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft features a lobe-shaped flow feature in Ghanan Crater on Ceres. The flow feature is a place where a crater rim has collapse and material has flowed across the surface.

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