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Dawn LAMO Image 170

Dawn LAMO Image 170
Photojournal: PIA20932
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 13, 2016

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured on June 1, 2016, shows an older crater on Ceres that is smoothly blanketed by ejecta from the nearby, relatively young crater named Kupalo.

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