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Dawn LAMO Image 155

Dawn LAMO Image 155
Photojournal: PIA20877
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 22, 2016

NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this tortured landscape just south of Ghanan Crater on Ceres on May 28, 2016, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface.

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