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Dawn LAMO Image 143

Dawn LAMO Image 143
Photojournal: PIA20863
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 4, 2016

This view taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 17, 2016, features Liber Crater in Ceres' northern hemisphere, at right.

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