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Dawn LAMO Image 163

Dawn LAMO Image 163
Photojournal: PIA20925
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 1, 2016

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken on May 29, 206, shows part of the floor and eastern rim on Consus Crater (40 miles or 64 kilometers wide) on Ceres.

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