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Dawn LAMO Image 156

Dawn LAMO Image 156
Photojournal: PIA20878
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 23, 2016

NASA's Dawn spacecraft spied this relatively smooth area of Ceres' surface, which includes the feature named Dalien Tholus, a dome-shaped feature visible in top right quadrant of the image.

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