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Dawn LAMO Image 198

Dawn LAMO Image 198
Photojournal: PIA20960
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: October 21, 2016

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a portion of Ikapati Crater on Ceres. Dawn took this image on June 10, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface.

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